Human and Natural Wonders of A S I A (Amazing World) Feb. 2015 | Page 14

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The tallest

Buhda in

the world

TALLEST

statue in the

world

Temple

buddha

The Spring Temple Buddha is a statue depicting Vairocana Buddha located in the Zhaocun township of Lushan County, Henan, China, built from 1997 to 2008. The building of this statue took ten years but it was worthy; nowadays it can be called "The tallest statue in the world with a height of 128 meters. This is another achievement of Asia. The project as a whole was estimated to cost around $55 million, $18 million of which being spent on the statue. It was originally estimated to consist of 1,100 pieces of copper cast, with a total weight of 1,000 tonnes. Beneath the statue is a Buddhist monastery but in order to see this wonder, not only people that practice budism come to the monastery, but people from all over the world.