# Handcrafted Vietnam White Marble Buddha Statue – Dancing, 2.5ft

> Vietnam white marble dancing Buddha statue, 30-inch, for garden and courtyard settings.

**Source:** https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/vietnam-white-marble-buddha-statue-dancing-2-5ft
**Business:** Tilak Mandirwala — made-to-order marble temples (mandirs), statues and decorative handicrafts. Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Founded 2006.
**How it works:** Each piece is carved to order by the independent master sculptors TMW works with in Jaipur's Khajane Walon Ka Rasta sculptors' market. TMW designs the piece with the customer, briefs the sculptor, and follows it through to delivery and installation.
**Pricing:** request-for-quote — pieces are custom, so the site carries no list prices.
**Ships:** across India; export enquiries welcome.
**About the image:** a design visualisation, not a photograph of stock on hand. The piece is carved to order after the design is agreed.
**Availability:** made to order.

## A Laughing Buddha caught mid-step, not seated

Most Laughing Buddha statues are seated. This one is caught mid-step: one leg lifted, both arms flung wide, head back and mouth open in laughter. It is the most kinetic form Budai takes, and it is a genuinely harder carving problem: the raised leg and outstretched arms mean the weight has to be resolved through a single supporting foot and the base, in a stone with no give in it.

The material is Vietnam white marble, cool-toned and fine-crystalline, with subtle low-contrast grain. Left matte with the natural surface showing, it keeps the chisel work visible across the swinging robe and the rounded belly. A polished finish would put highlights on every curve of a figure that already has a lot of movement in it; the matte surface lets the pose read cleanly instead.

## Seeing a 30-inch Buddha in the round, and commissioning yours

At 30 inches it wants to be seen in the round, so a plinth in an open position serves it better than a niche: the middle of a courtyard, a turn in a garden path, or a sandstone-paved terrace where there is room to walk past it from either side. It is a welcoming, unserious piece, which suits an entrance or a place people gather rather than a meditation corner.

Every piece is made to order. This one is carved for you by the master sculptors we work with in Jaipur. We develop the design with you, brief the sculptor, and follow it through to delivery at your door. The dancing form is ordered from around 18 inches up to life size, and in black stone, where the movement reads as a silhouette. Tell us where it will stand and we will quote it.

## Specifications

- **Material:** Vietnam White Marble
- **Finish:** Matte with natural grain
- **Colour:** Natural White
- **Height:** 30 inches
- **Ideal for:** Outdoor garden, Courtyard, Meditation area

Stone, size and finish are all changeable — these are the specifications of the piece as shown.

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## Part of

- [Statues](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/collections/custom-marble-statues)
- [Laughing Buddha](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/collections/laughing-buddha-statues)

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## Contact Tilak Mandirwala

- Email: info@tilakmandirwala.com
- Phone: +91 92141 72150
- WhatsApp: https://wa.me/919766532408
- Enquiry form: https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/contact
- Store: Jaipur, Rajasthan, India — https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/best-mandir-shop-jaipur

Enquiries are quoted per piece: share the deity or object, an approximate height, and the stone you have in mind.