Giant Buddha of Leshan: The tallest sculpture of the Buddha

By Asad Russel – 

About the Giant Buddha of Leshan, Southern Szechuan Province, China:
In the world among the stone build Buddha is the tallest the Giant Buddha of Leshan or the aka Dafo, in the southern Szechuan province by a monk of the 8th century of a cliff face carved out, of the Qingyi, Minjiang and Dadu rivers the confluence overlooks the Giant Buddha of Leshan and the sacred Mount Emei its statues of World Heritage Site it shares with which it faces.

The history of the Giant Buddha of Leshan:
In 713 AD was began on the Giant Buddha the construction. Named Haitong of a Chinese monk it was the idea, the turbulent waters would calm the Buddha that who hoped, down the river travelling the shipping vessels which plagued. Just supernatural were not his plans, in the river would be deposited from the cliff carved away of rubble the enormous amount, the currents altering and the water calming.

When was threatened for the project the government funding, his sincerity and piety to show his own eyes to have gouged is said the monk. By the disciples was continued the construction work and in 803 by the local governor finally completed.

Today the three rivers meet where some strong currents there are still, but the tourists’ ferries threaten none of that. In 1996 as a World Heritage Site of UNESCO was listed with the Giant Buddha of Leshan the Mount Emei Scenic area.

At the Giant Buddha of Leshan what to see:
As the Dafo known, a seated Maitreya Buddha depicts the statue on his knees resting with his hands, with the heavy lidded eyes the river gazing across. Future Buddha is the Maitreya, to preach the dharma who will appear when have faded away of the Gautama Buddha the teaching. During the 4th to 7th centuries he was popular especially and throughout the world of Buddhist can be found his images, of promise and expectancy his characteristic conveying.

233 feet or 71 meters tall standing, in the world the tallest Buddha statue is the Dafo. 92 feet or 28 meters wide are his shoulders and a seated person can accommodate the smallest toenail of him. 18 feet long is his each eyebrow. According to a saying of the local, “The Buddha is the mountain and the mountain is the Buddha”.

In the Buddha’s chest, collar hair and of his ears in the back holes hidden several passages of drainage from the serious weather and erosion the Buddha which preventing. Throughout his history of 1,200 years on a basis of regular he has been maintained lovingly but a bit mossy is still.

From the tourist ferries at the Buddha in awe visitors stare and next to his ear from a terrace, of the monk Haitong there is a modern statue of the terrace on one side, and on the renovation of the Dafo and the construction with exhibits in the Lingyum Temple Museum which located behind.

There is he Wuyou Si of the Giant in the south, to the Buddha from the ferry on the way which pass the visitors. In 742 AD founded a monastery of pink wall, impressive decorations it has which includes on the second wall to the West from the journey the painted scenes, splendid guardians of the gate and the Louhan Hall inside of arhats the amusing sculptures.

On Lingyun Shan of the gully on the other side, for Han-dynasty tomb chambers there are signs, was carved before the Buddha this site was sacred which suggest.

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