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Spring Temple Buddha
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Key facts
- Location
- Foquan Temple, Fodushan Scenic Area , Lushan County , Pingdingshan , Henan , China
- Type
- Statue
- Material
- Copper cast
- Height
- Statue : 128 metres (420 ft) Including base : 208 metres (682 ft)
- Completion date
- 1 September 2008
- Dedicated to
- Vairocana Buddha
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Lushan County
- Main subject
- Vairocana
- Material used
- copper
- Image
- Spring Temple Buddha 1.jpg
- Height
- 25
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- native label
- 中原大佛
- Commons category
- Spring Temple Buddha
- inception
- 2008-09-29
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Encyclopedic overview
The Zhongyuan Buddha (Chinese: 中原大佛; pinyin: zhōngyuán dàfó; lit. 'Big Buddha of the Great Plains' and simplified Chinese: 鲁山大佛; traditional Chinese: 魯山大佛; pinyin: Lǔshān dàfó) or better known in English as the Spring Temple Buddha is a colossal statue depicting Vairocana Buddha located in Foquan Temple (Chinese: 佛泉寺; pinyin: fó quán sì; lit. 'Buddha Natural-Spring Temple') in the Zhaocun township of Lushan County, Henan, China, built between 1997 and 2008. It is located within the Fodushan Scenic Area, close to National Freeway 311. At 128 metres (420 ft), excluding a 25-metre (82 ft) lotus throne, it is the second-tallest statue in the world after the Statue of Unity in Gujarat, India, which surpassed it in 2018 with a height of 182 metres (597 ft).
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Spring Temple Buddha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.