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Biggest buddha is a monument to man’s ability to solve his own problems

Posted by Reason on August 10th, 2008 Comments (0)

A nice set of images of the world’s tallest Buddha, 233ft/71 metres (seated, no less), in Leshan, Sichuan, China.

The groovy thing about this massive stone monument is that it was built in 713 to spiritually aid local sailors who frequently drowned in the surrounding rough river waters - turns out the debris from the carving that landed below actually made things safer for river travel, plugging up holes and such. Not a miracle, but kind of nice nonetheless - an example of man projecting his needs onto “god” and then making them happen for himself :)

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