Incense stick burner with holder - Buddha

Incense stick and cone burner with holder - Buddha.

Suitable for incense sticks and two cones.

Wooden with a metal Buddha image.

Dimensions: 31 x 5.5 x 6 cm

Material: Wood

In the collective imagination, the term “Buddha” often evokes the image of a superhuman, serene being, detached from earthly things, who – through meditation – has entered the state of “nirvana,” a condition that will allow him to escape the continuous sufferings of the world, the result of human illusions and desires.

This image does not reflect the true reality of the life of Shakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism who lived in India about 2500 years ago. He was a human being endowed with deep compassion who had rejected the excesses of asceticism and attachment to desires, who had constant contact with people and who wanted everyone to share the truth to which he had become enlightened.

The meaning of “Buddha” is “Enlightened” (literally in Sanskrit “awakened”), or “he who has become enlightened to the ultimate reality.”

With some approximation, we can define Enlightenment as the condition of complete awareness and wisdom, through which the profound truth of life in its complexity can be fully understood and appreciated. Any human being awakened to it can be called Buddha.