“There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.” The Buddha

1. The Largest Carved Stone Buddha Statue in the World

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The Buddha statue of Leshan is the tallest stone Buddha statue in the world, carved out of a cliff face by an 8th-century monk in southern Szechuan province, China. The Buddha statue overlooks the intersection of the Minjiang, Dadu and Qingyi rivers and faces the sacred Mount Emei.

It 's a local saying, "The mountain is a Buddha and the Buddha is a mountain."

This is a colossal seated Maitreya Buddha with his hands resting on his knees, facing the river proved – is the representation of the future Buddha Maitreya, which appear when the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama is forgotten. It was his popular 300-600 AD to see his picture all over the Buddhist world.

Construction began in 713 AD by a Chinese monacoHaitong name and that the Buddha would have wanted to turbulent forces, cruise ships traveling the river to calm troubled.

To calm the waters and save lives, raised a Master Haitong, Lingyun Buddhist abbot of the monastery, funds and began the construction of the giant Buddha.

On December 6, 1996, was approved by UNESCO as world cultural and natural heritage, and was officially registered in the list of world cultural heritage.

2. The largest recliningBuddha statue in the world

The largest sleeping Buddha statue is being built in Yiyang County of East China's Jiangxi Province. This imposing building was begun in the 1 May 2002 and measures 68 meters long and 416 meters. Before this statue, the world's longest reclining Buddha was only a 97 meter long and home to the Temple of Burmese capital Yangon Chaukhtatgyi.

3. The largest Buddhist pagoda in the world

The largest pagodaThe world is in Iceland Gorai in Mumbai, India, and is part of Essel World amusement park. He combined the world's largest man-made dome with the largest rock cave in the world. a religious foundation for Buddhist teachings is encouraged – the project was initiated by the Global Vipassana Foundation.

4. The world's largest Buddhist monument

It is located at Borobudur in Indonesia on the island of Java, and took more than a hundred years to build 750-850AD.

This magnificent temple complex consists of a three-dimensional mandala (Buddhist representation of the universe) and is the visual representation of the teachings of the Buddha made.

Unfortunately, it was buried in ash and lost in the world after the eruption of a volcano near for most of its existence.

The temple was built in 1814 by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, who had heard the story of a large irregularly shaped hills in the area and the locals believe that it is found at the site of an oldTemple called Budur.

In 1835, the site was cleared and some modest restoration was begun. This was made more difficult when the Dutch settlers gave away containers of 8 temple relics as gifts for the King of Siam, who was visiting Indonesia at the time. Between 1973 and 1984 initiated a major program of restoration and the site is now an important destination worldwide for Buddhist pilgrims. In 1991, the temple and its surrounding area was listed by UNESCO as world cultural heritage.

5. The largestBuddhist temples in the world

Wat Phra Dhammakaya is a Buddhist temple in Khlong Luang district of Pathum Thani, north of Bangkok, Thailand. It is the largest Buddhist temple in the world, which was designed to house more than a million pilgrims and of what is claimed some of the controversial Dhammakaya Foundation. The main temple stupa (dome), with a UFO and gold is in large gardens and land.

6. The largest Buddhist temple of wood

Youthe Todai-ji, a Buddhist temple located in the city of Nara, Japan. Its Great Buddha Hall is the largest wooden building in the world, and houses the world’s largest statue of the Buddha Vairocana. The temple has UNESCO World Heritage Site listing.

7. The Tallest Standing Buddha Statue in the World

Ushiku Amida Buddha statue is located in the city of Ushiku Arcadia in Ibaraki Prefecture, 50 km NE of Tokyo. The garden is dedicated as a place celebrating Hozo Bosatsu’s journey into If the Buddha Amida.

The statues are 100 feet high and rests on a lotus and a 10metres 10m platform makes the height of 120 meters above the ground combined. The base of the statue of a lotus flower and are made of steel reinforced concrete. The statue is made of an inner steel plate of 6 mm bronze over 6000 different cards. There is a viewing platform inside the statue with a height of 85 meters.

E 'was founded in 1995 and completed the Ushiku Amida Buddha' shighest statue in the world. The statue of Buddha is more than three times higher and a massive thirty times larger internal volume than the Statue of Liberty.

The statue weighs 4,000 tons and her index finger is seven meters long.

8. The largest statue of Buddha in the world of Jade

This magnificent statue of Buddha made of jade called for world peace is 3.5 meters tall and weighs 4.7 tonnes.The statue is a statue of Buddha inside the Mahabodhi stupa in Bodh base IndiaGaya.It was carved by a massive 18 tonnes of rock jade jade discovered in Canada in 2000 and thoughts on the world's largest piece of pure jade.

The inspiration for the statue was the Nepalese Lama Zopa Rinpoche. He had a brilliant jade Canadian rock, before it was discovered and dream to convince an Australian Buddhist Ian Green, the huge rock carved into a Buddha.

The rock from Canada to Bangkok in Thailand and Thai sculptors took 2 years to complete at lastthe statue.

The statue has traveled the world and has been for many countries before it can be in his permanent residence in the Mahabodhi Stupa, Atisha Centre made famous in Australia.

9. The largest solid gold Buddha statue in the world

This beautiful statue of Buddha is in the Temple of the Golden Buddha, Wat Traimit located in Bangkok. The temple dates back to the 13th Century, the golden statue of Buddha at least 900 years and the Sukhothai style.

If the Burmesewere about to destroy the city of Ayutthaya the statue was covered in plaster to hide its value from the invaders. 200 years later the statue’s origins had been forgotten and it was thought to be worth of little value. In 1957 the statue was being moved to another temple and it was dropped during the moving. That morning, a temple monk had an auspicious dream about the statue and so went to see it for himself. Through a crack he saw a glint of yellow, and was surprised to discover that the Buddha statue was made of pure gold. The graceful sitting Buddha statue is over 3 metres high and weighs over 5 tons.

10. Highest Buddhist monastery in the world

Rongbuk Monastery, Tibet China. It currently houses 30 Buddhist monks and 30 nuns – however previously there were about 500 monks and nuns living there. It lies at the foot of the Rongbuk Glacier and at 5,100 metres (17,000 ft) above sea level makes it the highest monastery in the world.

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