Large Buddha

This very large and imposing Buddha is just across the valley from a very large Chinese temple honoring a very large Chinese female deity. These and other large statues on the hills are not really designed for coming up and meditating at them but rather, like the large Christ statues, they are more like beacons for belief that can be seen from a great distance. I guess when people have forgotten how look at a mountain, and see the creation of God, we have to build a large monument or statue on them to remind us.

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