The heads of the children climbing all over my Laughing Buddha keep breaking off. This is causing me some distress. Almost 20 years ago, my then girlfriend, now ex-wife, bought me this Buddha in ...

The Laughing Buddha’s transformation into a global icon results from both the fascination with Chinese porcelain in 18th-century Europe and the 20th-century spread of Japanese Zen Buddhism.

The Laughing Buddha’s transformation into a global icon results from both the fascination with Chinese porcelain in 18th-century Europe and the 20th-century spread of Japanese Zen Buddhism.

With a carefree and charming smiling face, a laughing buddha can be your immediate mood lifter. Rub his bare tummy and all your bad luck will poof out. 2 / 7. Rub his tummy every day!

The Buddha they speak of is a gleaming, 6-foot-tall, 4-foot-wide laughing Buddha on the front lawn corner of 12th Street and Cocoanut Avenue has been stopping people in their tracks since 2021.