Early Buddhism did not advocate statues, so how did the current Buddhist statues come from?

The early Buddha Sakyamuni opposed being mythologized. Before the death of the Buddha, his disciples thought that the Buddha was noble, supreme and incomparable to ordinary people, so it was even more impossible to show the Buddha in the image of ordinary people.

The earliest Buddha statue was recorded in Gain agama. The Buddha spoke for his dead mother for several days. However, because he spent a long time in heaven, Udayana was too worried, because he had not seen the Buddha for a long time. His minister recruited craftsmen in China and ordered him to carve a 5-foot-high Buddha statue for the king to pay tribute to, in order to comfort the king's yearning for the Buddha statue.

This is the earliest Buddha statue in religious legends, but there is no way to verify it. This is just a legend.

Moreover, the emergence and rise of Buddha statues are closely related to a certain degree of technological development. Everyone knows that ancient Greek art is unique, full of myth and exquisite carving skills, which is also of great significance to Buddhist art in the next few hundred years.

It is also to promote Buddhism, and Buddhist art is rising and developing. The existing bronze Buddha statue in the fourth year of Jianwu (AD 338) in Shi Hu, in the post-Zhao era, is the earliest Buddha statue with a definite age in China, which indicates that stereotyped individual Buddhist sculptures have generally appeared.

Early Buddhist statues had plump faces, full limbs and quiet expressions. However, with the change of dynasties, the statues at this time are round and plump, with wide makeup and high bun, full of vitality, reaching unprecedented maturity and perfection.

Buddhist statues are the inevitable product of the widespread spread of Buddhism in China. The distribution and scale of Buddha statues are extremely extensive and grand in China. People usually pin their hopes on karma, and the mysterious expression of seeing through the world shown by Buddha statues is a true portrayal of people's hearts. The Buddha statue actually places people's good hopes and expectations for the afterlife.