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The third tallest statue of Shiva in India [24] 2006: Great Buddha Statue in Bodhgaya: Buddha: Bodhgaya: Bihar: 25 82: Mahabodhi Temple Complex in Gaya [25] 1989: Statue of Lord Shiva (Meinindranaatha Swami) Shiva Keeramangalam: Tamil Nadu 24.68 81 Thirty-first tallest statue in India, Third tallest statue in Tamil Nadu, Sixth tallest Shiva ...
The Great Buddha statue is located in a garden at the end of Temple Street and is surrounded by smaller sculptures of Buddha's ten principal disciples, five on each side. [6] The Great Buddha was possibly the largest Buddha statue in India at the time and was consecrated on 18 November 1989 by the 14th Dalai Lama. [7]
After five years and the expenditure of US$3 million, [1] the statue stood at 58 feet (18 m) and weighed 350 tons, making it the world's tallest monolithic statue of the Buddha. [2] A concrete platform measuring 15 feet (4.6 m), now referred to as the "Rock of Gibraltar," [ 3 ] was constructed in the middle of Hussain Sagar to aid in erecting ...
This list of tallest statues includes completed statues that are at least 50 m (160 ft) tall. The height values in this list are measured to the highest part of the human (or animal) figure, but exclude the height of any pedestal (plinth), or other base platform as well as any mast, spire, or other structure that extends higher than the tallest figure in the monument.
The Sultanganj Buddha is a Gupta–Pala transitional period sculpture, the largest substantially complete copper Buddha figure known from the time. The statue is dated to between 500 and 700 AD (but see below). It is 2.3 m high and 1 m wide, with a weight over 500 kg.
The statue of Maitreya Buddha at Thikse is two storeys tall. One of the main points of interest is the Maitreya (future Buddha) Temple erected to commemorate visit of the 14th Dalai Lama to this monastery in 1970. It contains a 15 metres (49 ft) high statue of Maitreya Buddha, the largest such statue in Ladakh, covering two stories of the ...
The Buddha Park of Ravangla, also known as Tathagata Tsal, is situated near Ravangla in South Sikkim district of the Indian state of Sikkim. It was constructed between 2006 and 2013, and features a 130-foot-high (40 m) statue of the Buddha , erected to mark the 2550th anniversary of the birth of Gautama Buddha , as its main attraction.
The Dhyana Buddha is a statue of Gautama Buddha seated in a meditative posture located in Amaravathi, Andhra Pradesh, India. [1] Completed in 2015, the statue is 125 ft (38 m) tall and is occupies a 4.5-acre site on the banks of the Krishna River. [2]