Today, 17 May, South Korea celebrate a national holiday - the Day of Buddha's birth. In honor of this event, we have decided to recall the most outstanding sculptures of the Buddha, who merit a mention in the Guinness Book of Records.
One of the most attractive tourist attractions in the province of Nan Shan is the 140-pound statue of Buddha made of solid gold. The only thing that could overshadow the tour - a ban on all possible photo and video. What to say about how to touch or break off a piece of the relics.
On the creation of the so-called "Jasper Emperor", carved from a single piece of semi-precious stones, for 27 months, 120 sculptors worked. Buddha height of almost 8 meters and a width of about 7 meters is the Guinness record holder.
Another Buddha, this time of jade weighing about 260 tons, which is listed in the Guinness book of record holders, is in the immediate vicinity of the ridge Qianshan, north-east China's Liaoning Province.
One of the shrines, inscribed in 1990 in the Guinness Book of Records, is stored in a Buddhist temple in Beijing. Carved from a single piece of white sandalwood statue of Maitreya - the Buddha of the Future rises 18 meters and 8 meters sculptures for sustainability are buried in the ground. It took about three years to transport the tree trunk from Nepal to Beijing.
Another statue of the Buddha, marked "record" book as the largest bronze statue in the world, located since 1995 in the town of Ibaraki Prefecture tendril. 120-meter high statue of the height of 27 meters above the Statue of Liberty and up to 35 meters above the sculpture "Motherland."
Another record is the statue of the Buddha 208 meters in height, built in the village Chzhaotsun in China. The sculpture of the Buddha Vairocana - one of the five sacred Buddha, who represents wisdom - was spent 33 tons of copper, 108 pounds of gold and 15,000 tons of special steel. Statue is made up of 1,100 individual parts and cost the creators of 18 million dollars.