German Buddha looks familiar?

[MindAbiding]

Dudes,

I came across this story on the interwebs today. I pasted it below. Don't be weirded by the swastika-- although there are Nazis in this story, the statue predates the Nazi party by 900 years. Back when the swastika meant good fortune. So there's no literal connection.

Anyway, my point is does the Buddha in this statue resemble anyone we know?

Here's the story:

Buddha Statue from Space
Credit: Elmar Buchner

It sounds like a mash-up of Indiana Jones' plots, but German researchers say a heavy Buddha statue brought to Europe by the Nazis was carved from a meteorite that likely fell 10,000 years ago along the Siberia-Mongolia border.

This space Buddha, also known as "iron man" to the researchers, is of unknown age, though the best estimates date the statue to sometime between the eighth and 10th centuries. The carving depicts a man, probably a Buddhist god, perched with his legs tucked in, holding something in his left hand. On his chest is a Buddhist swastika, a symbol of luck that was later co-opted by the Nazi party of Germany.

[Hominid]

I think he's jerking off manually... is that his knob? I guess we'll never know.

[LotsaBadKarma]

I think he's jerking off manually... is that his knob? I guess we'll never know.

Fuckin' A, I was just thinking the same thing.