No, you’re absolutely right - you didn’t earn that “sheesh.” Sorry. I’m just losing patience because I submitted a response long ago and everyone should have read it, right??

Here’s a quick summary: the “fat Buddha” commemorates a Chinese priest who lived nowhere but traveled from town to town giving away whatever he had. He was said to have laughed when he reached enlightenment, and so he was often called “the laughing buddha” (note lower-case “b”). “Budei” means “cloth sack,” and that is what he carried. That’s about it. Lived a few hundred years after the Buddha (big D), and several thousand miles north-ish.