Meaning 'one who is awake', the Buddha shows us a way of living that is free from the stresses and worry that can often overcome us. The colour pink is universal in representing harmony and inner peace, compassion, love of oneself and of others as well as approachability.
Blue – signifies the concept of loving kindness and peace in Buddhism. Yellow – signifies the Middle Path, that is, the complete absence of form and emptiness. Red – symbolizes achievement, wisdom, virtue, fortune, and dignity. White – stand for purity and emancipation.
Blue represents the sky, white represents the air, red symbolizes fire, green symbolizes water, and yellow symbolizes earth. All five colours together signify balance. Monks gather in Tibet.
Lord Buddha's aura was believed to expand to 3,500km from where he stood. Blue – blue light radiates from hair. It shows love, compassion, peace, and happiness. Gold or yellow – It represents rays radiating from Buddha's skin.
Purple lotus flowers play a vital role in Buddhism. They generally represent spiritual awakening, purity, and faithfulness.
The international Buddhist flag consists of six vertical stripes. The first five stripes are blue, yellow, red, white, and orange. The final stripe contains all of those colors.
The white lotus represents mental purity and spiritual perfection. The red lotus is the symbol of love and compassion. The blue lotus represents wisdom and intelligence and is always pictured partially opened. A gold lotus represents the achievement of complete enlightenment.
The ideals at the heart of Buddhism are collectively known as the 'Three Jewels', or the 'Three Treasures'. These are the Buddha (the yellow jewel), the Dharma (the blue jewel), and the Sangha (the red jewel).
Buddhist red color meaning
The red Buddha is Amitabha. Buddhists believe that if you meditate on the color red, your dependence will turn into wisdom. Above all, they believe that red is a protective color. That is why this color is used in all holy places and even in the clothes of monks.
Monks robes, which originated in India, were worn in various shades of yellow, ranging to orange and saffron, as they are today by monks in Thailand, Burma and other countries in South East Asia. Though yellow is still present in Tibetan monk's robes, the dominant hue is burgundy red.
Purple: Royalty, nobility, spirituality, ceremony, mysterious, transformation, wisdom, enlightenment, cruelty, arrogance, mourning.
Red represents the blood of life for the land and it's people, white represents purity and is the colour for Theravada Buddhism, the main religion in Thailand, and blue is the national colour of Thailand.
Peaceful, calm and gentle, blue has tremendous power to manage stress. It's a very soothing color that helps calm your mind, slow down your heart rate, lower your blood pressure and reduce anxiety. Blue is believed to have a cooling and astringent effect.
The Bodhi Tree is a religious symbol in Buddhism due to its prominence in the story of the Buddha's discovery of enlightenment, or total peace and happiness found in Nirvana, or the greater reality. It represents the capacity of every human to follow the steps of the Buddha in achieving enlightenment.
The Four Noble Truths
They are the truth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering. More simply put, suffering exists; it has a cause; it has an end; and it has a cause to bring about its end.
According to the Lotus Sutra, the seven are gold, silver, lapis lazuli, seashell, agate, pearl, and carnelian. In the “Treasure Tower” (eleventh) chapter of the sutra, the treasure tower adorned with these seven kinds of treasures appears from beneath the earth.
Pink lotus flowers are known as Buddha's earthly symbol, where a bud symbolizes one's spiritual journey and a fully-bloomed pink lotus represents enlightenment. Yellow lotus flowers symbolize openness and hospitality while red flowers have come to meant selfless love and compassion.
Colorful Pink Lotus(Jin Se) is versicolor double with pink tip lotus. It is yellow in the center with the pink tip, the color of the flower is peach, so it will be pink with peach together. And it is excellent blooming too.
While most lotus flowers are white or pink, they can also be blue, purple, or yellow. The color of a lotus flower is determined by the pigments in its petals.
Although the "standard" Buddhist flag is also used in Japan [1], there is a widely used flag with green, yellow, red, white and blue colors, which represent five Dhyani Buddhas [2, 3], who are worshipped by many Buddhists in Japan.
The eight emblems are: the Wheel of Law, a conch shell, a victory banner, an umbrella, a lotus flower, a vase, a pair of fish, and an endless knot.
Two Golden Fish represent good luck, and teach us that if we practice dharma, or good behavior, we should not fear drowning. The Parasol represents protection from the heat and the sun, and therefore protection from suffering.
Sacred color of the monk costume
It tells us that yellow was an exclusive color for monks. Monks wore yellow costumes to distinguish themselves from the “Zan” and “Zanpu,”,government officials who wore red uniforms. An ancient story tells how yellow became the sacred color of Buddhism.
Hindu and Buddhist monks wear orange robes, and in Hinduism, orange represents fire and therefore purity; impurities are burned in fire.