Which of these is a Buddha image? This is a Buddha image.
This is not a Buddha image.
These are Buddha Images.
This is not a Buddha image.
This is not a Buddha image.


In the Buddha's life time he did not allow images to be made of him. It was only after several hundreds of years that Buddha images started being made.

So Images of the Buddha are not images of the Buddha but images of the ideal of the Buddha.

The Wheel was used to represents Buddhism before human images were allowed. The Fat, happy Chinese monk that most westeners think is a Buddha Image, is not. He represent good fortune and prosperity in Mahayana Buddhism.