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Physical characteristics of the Buddha

There are no extant representations of the Buddha represented in artistic form dating from before roughly the 2nd century CE, probably due to the prominence of aniconism in Buddhism in the earliest extant period of Buddhist devotional statuary and bas reliefs. A number of early discourses describe the appearance of the Buddha, and are believed to have…

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Early history

GandharaMathuraBodhisattvasGregory SchopenMahāyāna
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The 32 Signs of a Great Man

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The 80 secondary characteristics

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Causal relations of the 32 signs of perfection of the Tathāgata

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Physical characteristics of the Buddha

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a riderless horseinstance ofwith the Buddha being represented as symbols0.80text
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the Maitreyasiṃhanāda Sūtrainstance ofMahāyāna sūtras from this period0.80text
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if it is mentioned at allinstance ofMahāyāna sūtras from this period0.80text
the Dona suttainstance ofTexts0.80text

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