Post by HondoPost by KeynesPost by HondoWhat exactly is the average height of a short,
fat, buddha guy?
Standing up, or laying down?
Well, if he was lying down he might be short
only on one end, so what is the average height
of a standing, short, fat, buddha guy?
Average over all Buddha fields and worlds, or just
the Saha world?
These guys tend to skew the average:
Then the Lord Kamaladalavimalanakshatrarâgasankusumitâbhigña, the
Tathâgata, &c., said to the Bodhisattva Mahâsattva Gadgadasvara: On coming
to the Saha-world, young man of good family, thou must not conceive a low
opinion of it. That world, young man of good family, has ups and downs,
consists of earth, is replete with mountains of Kâla, filled with gutters.
The Lord Sâkyamuni, the Tathâgata, &c., is short of stature, and so are the
Bodhisattvas Mahâsattvas, whereas thou, young man of good family, hast got
a body forty-two hundred thousand yoganas high, and myself have got a body
sixty-eight hundred thousand yoganas high. And, young man of good family,
thou art lovely, handsome, of pleasant appearance, endowed with a full
bloom of extremely fine colour, and abundantly blest with hundred thousands
of holy signs. Therefore then, young man of good family, when you have come
to the Saha-world, do not conceive a low opinion of the Tathâgata, nor of
the Bodhisattvas, nor of that Buddha-field.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/lotus/lot23.htm