The Sandalwood Laughing Buddha is one of the most popular symbols used by Feng Shui Consultants for enhancing the good luck and wealth.

Sandalwood Laughing Buddha is also known as Happy Buddha or Matreiya. This Buddha is regarded as one of the gods of wealth and keeping this symbol at home is said to bring prosperity, happiness and success.

Keeping this figurine at the place of business is said to enhance business and money luck.

Sandalwood Laughing Buddha absorbs negative Chi and emanates positive energies. This is a very auspicious symbol and can be seen gracing many homes, temples,restaurants and vehicle dash boards.

This is an excellent gift item for a loved one.

The Sandalwood Laughing Buddha figurine is seen with protruding stomach and jolly

smile. He is usually depicted carrying wealth symbols such as pots of gold,large ingots and a sack believed to contain treasures. This Buddha is believed to be a person having extraordinary happiness, patience and compassion. It is said that he stomachs all the troubles and problems and transforms them into happiness.

The Sandalwood Laughing Buddha is also considered a

patron of the weak, poor and children.

There are numerous kinds of Buddha statues or sculpture available in different parts of the world, but each is said to depict a unique posture of Buddha. 

Buddha figurines are the statues that contain various mudras that are depicted with the help of hands and have a different story to tell. Various prominent mudras depicted creatively in the form of Buddha statues are varada mudra, abhaya mudra and others that depict Lord Buddha carrying his daily life chores such as meditating or even sleeping.