He began to ponder so he sat down under the tree and start to meditate. He became so immersed in his thoughts that he didn't notice the time. As time passed by, the sun rays were directed to his bald head.
At that moment, a snail was making its way along the ground. Snail noticed that the Buddha was meditating on that hot day. Even though he sat under the tree, the sun rays were directed towards his head.
Snail thought that the Buddha's head was soon going to become a distraction and it would be hard for him to concentrate. Without a second thought, Snail made its way up to the Buddha's head and sat there, with his mucous body cooling the Buddha's smooth and bare skin.
Other snails also followed the first one, went up to the head and sat down there. Snails on the head looked like a neat cap of spiral shells. Buy a Buddha statue for Goodluck. Snail's cool and damp bodies helped to maintain the Buddha's meditation continue for hours.
The snail became parched and dry due to the heat rays. Later in the evening when Buddha stood from the meditation, he learned that he was wearing a cap of snails, all of whom had given their lives to make a distraction-free environment for Buddha's path to enlightenment. Since snails had given their lives for the Buddha, they are now honored as martyrs. Oishi created a 3D map of the curls using technology that measures the time for a surface to reflect light from laser beams, reports Ishiyama.
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Aryan Khan, who spent 22 days in jail, has been taking drugs for 4 years. This textual evidence makes it debatable whether the Buddha was bald or he had hair.
Of course, we do not really know what the historical Buddha looked like as the first Buddha statues and Buddha heads were created only roughly around years after his Mahaparinirvana.
As the Buddha is portrayed with ringlets of hair to illustrated his life-story, we can say that the Buddha heads and statues we see now are not the accurate physical representation of the prince turned spiritual leader, the Buddha. Hair of the Buddha. Share this page.
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