PALEST store LAVENDER BUDDHA: Beaded with Lavender Jade, Amethyst, and Sterling, Sterling Findings, Unique Protection Good Fortune Amulet

This charming smiling Buddha jadeite carving is both pale lavender and the slightest hint of green. A temple lion is carved into the area beside the Buddha's right shoulder. He is sitting in a familiar meditation position with a huge smile on his face, and so this posture has become known as the smiling Buddha. In creating this unisex necklace, i added purple ocher to the carving incisions to emphasize the beautiful work of the artisan and to add the feeling of greater depth to the pale lavender. In my mind, I had a picuree of the necklace as it would look completed. The deep purple amethysts needed the purple ocher for balance, the light and dark aspect of the Buddha balancing the light lavender jade and dark purple amethys beads of the necklace. The lavender jade beads are stunning in their subtle colors (which in some beads include pale rose, pale tangerine, and ivory lights) setting off the gorgeous deep purple amethysts. Both the jade and amethyst beads are the finest quality. The Buddha was a store teacher who attracted students as he traveled the length of the Ganges River helping the people from every walk of life find inner peace. The story of the Buddha begins with Siddhartha Gautama's birth in Lumbini, Nepal, in about 567 BCE. He was the son of a king, raised in sheltered opulence. He married and had a son. Prince Siddhartha was twenty-nine years old when his life changed when he first saw a sick person, then an old man, then a corpse. The harshness of reality and human suffering shook him to the core of his being; he realized that his privileged status and he yearned to help those who seemed lost. He yearned to find enlightenment. He sat in meditation beneath “the Bodhi tree” until he experienced enlightenment, after which time he would be known as Buddha. Before he achieved enlightenment, he spent years searching for a way to experience inner peace. When he achieved the mental discipline that enabled him to renounce his worldly life, he traveled the Ganges River basin as a mendicant preacher. During his spiritual quest he sought teachers and punished his body with ascetic practices, but after six years of this, the prince felt there must be a better pathway to sanctity.. Eventually, he understood that the path to peace came through mental discipline. He gave his first sermon in modern-day Sarnath, near Benares, and then walked from village to village, attracting disciples along the way. He founded the original order of Buddhist nuns and monks, many of whom became great teachers also. He died in Kushinagar, located in what is now the state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India, about 483 BCE. It is said that the Buddha lends his power and protection to a carving of his image transforming it into an amulet of good fortune, protection, and longevity.