Walking Buddha

[Yashwant Malaiya]

Swaminathan Madhuresan <smadhuresan at YAHOO.COM> wrote:

> Are there any walking buddhas who are depicted over the lotus?
> In painting or bronze. Thailand??

I have seen drawings of Buddha walking on lotus. I might be able
to find one on the web. Some of you may remember the scene in
Little Buddha where Buddha walks on lotus flowers.

I know a painting on the web showing a Jina walking on lotuses.
It is referred to often in Jainism, it occus in the Bhaktamara-
Stotra  for example.

> In "Thirukkural and Buddhism" thread, A. Aklujkar wrote:
> So general, For example, "a.ra aa_li"
> could refer to the Buddhist dharma wheel, "tirukkuRaL and Buddhism"
> (8-nov-97):
> http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-shl/WA.EXE?A2=ind9711&L=indology&P=R3662

It was once common for Jains to worship the dharma-chakra and to
place it at the feet of the Jina. It is occasionally still found
in some Jain temples as a yantra.

Thirukkural could not have been composed by a Buddhist because it
opposes not only killing of animals, but also consumption of
meat.

Yashwant