Oriental Buddha Capital: Hidden Germ in The Shadowof The Colossus

#chinatrip Opened to the public in 1994, East Buddha Park is just 1 km from Leshan Giant Buddha. Oriental Buddha Park, covering an area of over 20,000 m2, is a stone carving theme park that combines religious art, sculpture and landscape design. There are more than 3,000 statues of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the park made of various materials, including stone, bronze, clay and jade. The entire park shows the artistic style of Chinese Buddhism and Buddhism in Southeast Asia. The park is full of huge caves with lots of statues of different sizes, there are just huge ones. Many of the statues look modern. The scale of the work done is impressive. They even made a replica of the statues from the Indian temple of Khajuraho. I liked the statue of Bodhidharma, who "moves from the south", for its seriousness. Bodhidharma moved from India to China and was received by the emperor, who encouraged Buddhism by creating new monasteries and shrines. He informed Bodhidharma about the increase in the number of Buddhist monks. He replied: "Everything belonging to the world is an illusion, monasteries and monks are as unreal as you and me." Then he turned to the wall and began to meditate. When the emperor, completely confused, asked: "Then what is the essence of Buddhism?“Bodhidharma replied: "Emptiness and no substance." Oriental Buddha Capital is a very beautiful green park, it is located near the big Buddha (Leshan Giant Buddha). I highly. There are also some of the largest Buddha statues here, including a huge reclining Buddha carved into a rock and a 33-meter-high statue a sitting Buddha and a large 51-meter-high statue of a standing Buddha. In the park you will have to climb a lot of steps to get around everything, there is also a small temple. You can get to Oriental Buddha Capital in the same way as to the big Buddha in Leshan (Leshan Giant Buddha).