11 World Famous Buddha Statues

Kamis, 28 Juni 2012

1.  Borobudur Buddha Statue


Buddha statues in Borobudur temple is a masterpiece of Indonesia ancient artist. All position of each Buddha statues are on sitting position with different hand styles. In the past time there are 504 Buddha statues, 300 statues were damaged and 43 statues lost.

2. Hussain Sagar Buddha Statue


This Buddha statue situated in the middle of man-made lake in Hyderabad, India. The statue has 17 metres of height and 320 tons of weight. It is the biggest monolithic statue in India, which created by sculptor only with a big stone. Tragic, when this statue was built, the statue fallen off into the lake and killed 8 employees. Then government refixed the statue and now being an attraction in Hyderabad.

3. Tian Tan Buddha Statue


Tian Tan Buddha statue located in Lantau Island, Hong Kong. Made from bronze and finished at 1993. This Buddha Statue is main attraction of Po Lin Monastery which is symbolizing harmonization between human, nature, society, and religion. It is called Tian Tan due to below this statue is a Tian Tan Temple replica in Beijing. This statue has 34 metres of height and its posture symbolizing the quietness.

4. Monywa Buddha


Monywa is a city in the middle of Myanmar that located on Chindwin river. Here you can see the biggest lying down Buddha statue in the world. This statues has 90 metres of length and. The head of statues has 60 feet of height. Monywa Buddha built in 1991 and visitors can get into the statue.

5. Ayutthaya Buddha Head


Ayutthaya City in Thailand has unusual Buddha statue in the world. Between the ruins of Wat Mahathat, there is a statue which has been lost by time and only its head left, flanked by trees. This is being one of the beautiful statue in the world.

6. Gal Viharaya


Located in Sri Lanka, Polonnaruwa is a site which the most popular Buddha Statue lies down.  The monastery of the stone established in 12th century. In the middle of te monastery there are 4 big Buddha statues lies down along 14 metres and a big 7 meters standing big Buddha statue.

7. Ushiku Daibutsu


Ushiku Daibutsu located in Ushiku city, Japan. Finished in 1995, this statue is one of the tallest statue in the world. Ushiku Daibutsu has 120 meters of height.

8. Temple of The Reclining Buddha


Located in Bangkok, Wat Pho is famous with a big lying down Buddha statue. This monastery being a largest and oldest monastery in Bangkok. This status was built 200 years after Bangkok being the capital city of Thailand.

9. Great Buddha of Kamakura


 Great Buddha of Kamakura or Daibutsu Kamakura in Japanese, is a historic bronze statues from Amida Buddha in Kamakura, Japan. The statue stands in peace above Kotokuin land. Daibutsu Kamakura being a top icon of Japan tourism industry.

10. Temple of The Emerald Buddha


Another popular monastery in Bangkok is Wat Phra Kaew. Inside the monastery there is Buddha Zamrud statue, the oldest and the most popular Buddha statue in the world. Based on folktales, this statue created in India about 43 BC in Pataliputra and stayed there for 300 years. In 4th century AD, this statue brought to Sri Lanka bay monks to save it from war. And then brought to Thailand and moved to Wat Phra Kaew in 1779.

11. Leshan Giant Buddha


Leshan Giant Buddha is one of the human masterpiece.The statue was carved on a valey that directly heading the sea in Sichuan, western China. Started from Tang Dinasty in 713 AD, this Buddha statue had just finished in 803 AD (90 years) involving many efforts from sculptors and artists.  

2 komentar:

  1. Kerla tour packages mengatakan...:

    Hey wow amazing images of buddha. i am also very curious to know about buddha and realted all the mysteries things. its amazing post of 11 World Famous Buddha Statues . i am really impressed by what a collection. good work man

  1. Peter Vredeveld mengatakan...:

    Leshan Giant Buddha statues of China is one of the famous Buddha statues in China, the architecture of the statues, the place where it was built and the river in front of the statues is what it makes one of the famous statues in the world. So does the Spring Temple Buddha in China, as the largest statues in the world.

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