Why do Buddhas have long earlobes?

Answer 1

His unusually long ear lobes are a sign of great spiritual wisdom. His golden complexion shoes his inner tranquillity, and the wheel patterns on the soles of his feet point to his role as wheel-turner. All of his unique features symbolize different meanings.

Answer:

The Buddha, not all Buddhas are depicted with long earlobes. This is probably for a few reasons.

The first may be that becuase he was a prince he had them becuase of heavy earrings that stretched his ears. Also some people have neaturally long earlobes, he may have been one such person. Lastly and more importantly. it is a part of Buddhists iconography. His earlobes are elongated to indicate the Buddha is all-hearing

Answer The representations of the Buddha are contemporary representations of a historical figure that never sat for a portrait or photograph. Like Christian depictions of Jesus and the saints they tend to look "like us" and are dressed in idealized cloths "like they'd wear back then" There is no reason to suspect that Asian artisans would not do the same. As answerer #1 suggests they may be symbolic of some attribute like a halo or a burning heart in Christian iconography where even the positioning of the fingers have an obscure meaning.

Answer 2

In the time of Siddhartha Gautama, both men and women wore heavy earrings. The Buddha's long earlobes are therefore a representation of the material things that, quite literally, weighed him down until he chose to renounce them.

Answer 3

Malnutrition due to low-fat diet provided in most if not all Asian countries, causing low cartilage density and ultimately sagginess of skin in certain areas.

Answer 4

because they always wear heavy earrings which stretch their earlobes