happy buddha

Laughing Buddha

HAPPY BUDDHA / HOTEI

The enlightened mystic most associated with laughter is “THE HAPPY BUDDHA/HOTEI”, also known as the laughing Buddha. Happy Buddha / Hotei was a large man with a big belly who traveled from village to village in sixteenth-century Japan. He had no desire to call himself a Zen master or to gather disciples. Instead he walked the streets…

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