Spring Temple Buddha - is the tallest statue in the world Bashny.Net

Spring Temple Buddha is the largest statue in the world. It depicts the Buddha Vairochana - is one of the five sacred Buddha, symbolizing wisdom. the statue is located in the village of Chzhaotsun in China. The idea to build such an original shrine came after Afghan Taliban blew up two huge statues of Buddha, the Chinese are very sharply reacted to this event.





Then they decided to build in Henan majestic statue that would be fully passed on to the respect of the Chinese Buddhist heritage.





Construction of a unique giant was very rapid and reached the finish line in 2002. Height Spring Buddha - 128 meters, of which 20 meters - a foot in the form of a lotus flower, and the remaining 108 - directly Buddha statue. All of this magnificent building is a 25-meter pedestal.





In 2010, the hill on which a statue, transformed into two large stone steps, so the height of the entire structure from the top to the base totals 208 meters, this fact was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.





In the manufacture of the statue has been used 33 tons of copper, 108 kg of gold and 15 thousand. Tonnes of special steel. She created from separate parts, which are then collected into a single whole, all of these pieces was about 1,100. Spring Buddha Cost is about $ 18 mln., And the cost of the project - $ 55 million.



















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