Buddha image via www.publicdomainpictures.net.

Barbara O’Brien provides a pretty good answer to this question in Lion’s Roar. The questions she addresses include:

• Who Was Buddha?
• What Do We Know About the Historical Buddha?
• Have There Been Other Buddhas?
• What About the Buddhas in Buddhist Art?
• Do Buddhists Worship the Buddha?
• What Did the Buddha Teach?
• What Is Enlightenment?
• Is There a Buddhist Bible?
• Additional Reading

Worth a look!

Museums are getting hip to twitter. The Asian Art Museum is one of many that has an official presence:

http://twitter.com/asianartmuseum

Among the AAM twitter friends you will find many more art museums.

I’m here, BTW:

http://twitter.com/xensen

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The Asian Art Museum is one of the largest museums in the West devoted entirely to Asian Art. I believe it is also the first San Francisco museum to have a nonprofit YouTube Channel. Click the screen shot to visit.

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The official AAM site is here.

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