With his portly figure and balding head, he looked like a youthful version of the little buddhas sold in Japanese tourist markets.

Hess sat with his hands on his belly like a little German Buddha.

By all the kamis," Chaandi said slowly, "and all the little buddhas, too.

Boofuls was sitting on the sofa, still cross-legged, like a little Buddha, still smiling.

"The monks are spoiling him rotten and he is turning into a little tyrant rather than a little Buddha."

Is there really a little Buddha in there?

He was turning into a porky little Buddha, but compared to everyone else in the room he was life itself, vibrant, irreverent and laughing.

The Martian took on the appearance of a chubby little Buddha.

Kate looked and saw a small rectangular lump of what might have been ivory, carved into the very rough image of a fat, smiling little Buddha.

We glided silently by a sleeping red howler monkey with his voice box tucked into his chest like a rotund little Buddha in deep meditation.