The Giant Buddha statue, carved on the mountain, stands 71m high, with its back against Mount Jiuding and facing the confluence of the Minjiang River, Dadu and Qingyi rivers. There are more than ...

Over the centuries, the cultural treasures grew in number. The most remarkable is the Giant Buddha of Leshan, carved out of a hillside in the 8th century and looking down on the confluence of three ...

The Buddha head statue was an iconic piece that once sat in the eighth cave of Taiyuan's Tianlong Mountain Grottoes for ... the fine and distinctive carving techniques used to create the statues ...