If you’ve taken your fair share of day trips out from Shanghai, it’s possible you’ve seen this picture before. This is the world’s largest statue, the world’s tallest statue and the world’s largest statue all at once. But where does it live, where must you go, what can you tell us about it? Submit your knowledge to us for inclusion in a forthcoming article about it and count yourself in amongst the participants who could win a great prize for participating in the site.
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It’s something, isn’t it? It’s the hugest, thinnest Buddha you may have ever imagined, planted on a foundation of bedrock carved in to a hillside. It weighs as much as a skyscraper, and well it should, it’s as big as one too. There’s a gift shop at the base with a small museum and is surrounded by a campus of unique, historically important relics, but where is it?
One of our writers took the picture, so we have all the answers, but we’re making Fun & Games out of it, inviting readers to sound off as to what you think it is, where you think it is, what you think you know about it, and what you can tell our readers to help them decide that it’s a MUST SEE attraction outside of Shanghai.
All commenters to this article will automatically be entered in to a drawing to win a prize, as outlined elsewhere on our site, and as soon as we get enough entries, the drawing will take place here in our office. (Don’t worry, no one on staff with AboutShanghai is eligible to win.)
Good luck, and enjoy the gigantic-Buddha, I know our writer did.
