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>>33223
I laughed so hard at this. Oh, and I think the Japanese call him Hotei.
>>33219
Either way, the laughing buddha is really just a well-known Buddhist monk. Daruma is a well-known Buddhist monk as well. The legend goes that he was meditating with his eyes open so long that he lost them. He also lost his limbs from not using them, which is why the Daruma dolls look the way they do.
I've come across a Daruma papercraft, I think at the Canon website, but I haven't come across any good papercrafts of actual Buddhas or Bodhissatvas. Miroku, the buddhist monk from InuYasha, shares his name with the Buddha of the future.
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