The central message of Buddhism is “every man for himself”, after all.
So it’s Ayn (“Buddha”) Rand?
Just as a note, most “Buddha” statues aren’t meant to portray the historical Gautama Siddhartha, or even the Fat “Lucky” Buddha (I’ve heard about four different explanations for that figure, by the way). Some statues are of Maitreya (the “future Buddha”), some are Bodhisattvas (“a compassionate Buddhist being who has attained enlightenment but chooses to delay entering paradise to help others”), including Avalokiteshvara, “The Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion” (AKA Kwan-Yin AKA Guanyin AKA Gannon AKA Chenresig, and a lot of other aliases – look it up), which is arguably the most worshipped figure in the world.
In fact, there is a class of “starving Buddha” figures portraying Siddhartha in emaciated form to represent him fasting, which is the very antithesis of the familiar “fat Buddha”.
There are a lot of books to tell you about them and their representations and symbols (which are as varied and distinct as the Western Saints). I think of these books as “Field Guide to the Buddhas”. One of the best is Alice Getty’s The Gods of Northern Buddhism
A bit late to the garden party, but I figure that most Buddha statues in landscapes wind up there because they’re thought to emphasize serenity/meditativeness. The places that sell mass-produced garden statuary (usually concrete) have more Christian saints than Buddhas, somewhat for the same reason but with more overtly religious overtones.
I have a couple of Chinese foo dogs around the garden, along with gargoyles, including this guy:
No “spiritual” significance, I just like them. Lots better than the cherubs, fairies and cutesy animals that some prefer.
I have a number of Ganesha statues, and I have a good feeling about this particular god (and his little mouse buddy).
After a trip to the Northeast US in my twenties, I was struck with a lifelong craving for a bathtub Mary. I just don’t know where I’d put her as I don’t have a front yard.
I do miss the bathtub Marys!
Those are lions, btw.
I want to make a statue of an elephant-headed god out of emulsified chocolate. That way, I’ll have a Ganache Ganesh.
Sounds yummy!
The making might well be properly worshipful. I’m thinking it’ll be hard for the eating to be anything but sacrilegious.
I’m no believer in anyone’s religion. But somehow disrespecting anyone’s iconic images and forms seems gratuitously rude. Laughing at their beliefs is one thing. Poking rudely at their statuary is another.
I was just making a silly pun. If I offended anyone, I apologize.
Not I. It was clever.
Mmm… sacrilegious.
(dunno why, but “last supper candy bar” seems to be a thing)
If the proper way to eat a chocolate Ester bunny is to bite off the ears first, ISTM the only way to properly eat a last supper bar is to go for jeebus’ head first.
So wrong. 
Gotta save Jesus for last, though. I’d say go for Judas first, but he’s kinda buried in there.
In cross form, clearly you bite off the arms first, then the head, then the feet:
Dayum, but there are some things I just can’t wrap my irreverent heathen brain around. They happily sell these by the thousands or millions but get upset about Piss Christ? WTF?
To be fair, I don’t know who exactly is buying or selling these things. I grabbed the cross ones from this site:
They have plenty of Jewish-oriented stuff too. Not to mention “adult” chocolates.
That’s quite a site / cite. Yeah, I’d say that whole place deals in irreverent and we can assume most of the religious items are sold to unbelievers in whichever faith’s icons are being modeled and mocked.
Long as it’s chocolate, I don’t think it matters.
I think you need you wash your mouth out with soap for that heresy