Can Buddha be insulted by disrespect? I found a video about Leshan Giant Buddha and was watching it with my family. In that video some workers were cleaning the statue's head while walking on it (it is a giant statue) - and my family members were surprised that people walked on Buddha's head, because to them that looked disrespectful. I replied that it's not a real problem, because Buddha does not have attachment to respect and would not feel insulted. Was I wrong or is this correct? The Buddha would never cling to such concepts like respect and feel insulted, right?
The answer comes in the Akkosa Sutta below. Even if someone insults him or speaks to him in a hurtful manner, he doesn't accept it i.e. react to it. And so it goes back to the originator.

However in the case of the Giant Buddha Statue, perhaps they have no choice but to walk on its head in order to clean it. The Buddha statue is not the Buddha himself. It's only a symbolic representation.


  I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying
  near Rajagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the Squirrels' Sanctuary. Then the
  brahman Akkosaka Bharadvaja heard that a brahman of the Bharadvaja
  clan had gone forth from the home life into homelessness in the
  presence of the Blessed One. Angered &amp; displeased, he went to the
  Blessed One and, on arrival, insulted &amp; cursed him with rude, harsh
  words.
  
  When this was said, the Blessed One said to him: "What do you think,
  brahman: Do friends &amp; colleagues, relatives &amp; kinsmen come to you as
  guests?"
  
  "Yes, Master Gotama, sometimes friends &amp; colleagues, relatives &amp;
  kinsmen come to me as guests."
  
  "And what do you think: Do you serve them with staple &amp; non-staple
  foods &amp; delicacies?"
  
  "Yes, sometimes I serve them with staple &amp; non-staple foods &amp;
  delicacies."
  
  "And if they don't accept them, to whom do those foods belong?"
  
  "If they don't accept them, Master Gotama, those foods are all mine."
  
  "In the same way, brahman, that with which you have insulted me, who
  is not insulting; that with which you have taunted me, who is not
  taunting; that with which you have berated me, who is not berating:
  that I don't accept from you. It's all yours, brahman. It's all yours.
  
  "Whoever returns insult to one who is insulting, returns taunts to one
  who is taunting, returns a berating to one who is berating, is said to
  be eating together, sharing company, with that person. But I am
  neither eating together nor sharing your company, brahman. It's all
  yours. It's all yours."