Buddha Sculptures

Arts & Crafts.

This art variants have a long tradition and are visible at shrines, pagodas, temple and for decoration. During colonial times and after Myanmar Buddha Statues and Sculpture where actively hunted and stolen by the English and other.


Today they are popular for decoration at homes, offices, hotels and other places. There are several categories to make sure it fits the purpose and within the budget, mainly people buy them made from wood, marble, bronze, brass, jade and bigger ones made from stones and masonry, there are various styles, shapes and colors. Actually every country where they are made brings their own appearance into the design.  One of the best places to buy them is the Bogyoke market in Yangon.

Laughing Jade Buddha

Laughing Jade Buddha

from Bogyoke Market

Laughing Jade Buddha

at Bogyoke Market

In recent years laughing Buddha statues are the most popular, 

they are purely used for decoration to give a place a positive and exotic aura. What can you buy? Old or new, since there are almost no genuine old ones available, or they are fakes, the best is just to take a contemporary piece in the material you like. Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Nepal and India are where they are still made in various forms.

Here is attractive brass, marble and wood artwork.

Marble Buddha made in Mandalay

Brass Buddha casting

Pretty relief artwork

Sandalwood Sculptures

from Bogyoke Market

The quality is usually defined how the artwork is done, is it really skillful or just another one of the not very pretty stuff.

The artists do a good job with different materials and with creating one work there is another division. One person is responsible for the head, the other for the body etc. and one master-craftsmen tells what to do.