1,000 Buddhas
 Wanted: Buddha. 1,000 times. Photography site Lens Culture has put out a global call for images of the roly-poly, sacred figure. Already, the collections boasts images of the deity posing in a shop window in Amsterdam and sitting on a table in New York. He towers over a garden in Thailand; hides in a collection of garden clippings in Berkeley, CA; and casts his legendary profile against a cloudy Japanese sky. Here, he appears in a colorful poster in a Beijing market; there, he manifests in the dark lines tattooed on a man's forearm. Sometimes, he looks angry, like the "stern Buddha" captured by Edward Galligan in "a small Buddhist temple in the hills of Coxsackie, NY." One picture reveals the "world's largest seated outdoor Buddha" on Lantau Island in Hong Kong. Lens Culture ventures that the project "may well generate good karma for everyone involved, viewers and contributors, alike." 1,000 times over.
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