Buddha mania (1)

A recent addition to ancient giant  Buddhas is a headless one discovered near Taiyuan in 1982 and built circa Northern Qi. Given a new head in the style of that period and building tourist infrastructure, it was open to pubic only last year as the Mengshan Big Buddha 蒙山大佛.–Lily Lee <l.lee@sydney.edu.au>

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