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Not far from the city of Chengdu in Sichuan Province, China, sits the Leshan Giant Buddha statue. Carved into the side of Mt. Lingyun, the colossal statue is over 1,300-years-old and is considered to be the largest stone Buddha in the world, and by far the tallest pre-modern statue. The site attracts millions of people every year, including Buddhist pilgrims, making it something of a sacred destination and an ancient wonder of the world.
A statue honoring Maitreya
The Leshan Giant Buddha statue (also known as Dafo), is located to the east of Leshan City and sits at the junction of three rivers; the Min River, Qingyi River, and Dadu River. It faces the sacred Mount Emei with the rivers flowing below its feet and depicts a stout, smiling monk, calmly sitting, resting his hands upon his knees with heavy-lidded eyes gazing across the river. The statue is believed to be Maitreya, a Buddha and disciple of Sakyamuni, who is thought to have been the founder of Buddhism, symbolizing brightness and happiness.
Worshiping Maitreya was especially popular between the 4th and 7th Centuries. Today, images of him can still be found in many Buddhist temples throughout China and the Leshan statue is considered the most inspiring of them all.
The Paradise of Maitreya, Zhu Haogu and Zhang Boyuan, 1320 (Wikimedia Commons)
The architecture of the Leshan Giant Buddha
The appeal of the Buddha lies not only in its size but in its architectural craftsmanship. The entire statue is made of stone, except for the ears which were crafted out of wood, then affixed, and covered with clay. The Buddha’s hair is arranged in special spiraled curls with 1,021 twists that have been skillfully embedded in the head.
The statue is ten stories high, and if the statue stood upright, it would be almost eye to eye with the Statue of Liberty. The Buddha is so enormous that it is alleged that 100 monks could sit on one foot. Measuring 71 meters tall (233 feet), the statue has a symmetrical posture, creating a gracefully relaxed image. Its head is 15 meters (50 feet) high, its shoulders 28 meters (92 feet) wide, and its smallest toenail can accommodate a seated person. Each eyebrow alone is 5.5 meters (18 feet) while its nose is 6 meters (20 feet) long. A large pair of ears, measuring seven meters (23 feet), is capable of holding two people inside.
Several drainage passages hidden inside the Buddha's hair, collar, chest, and back of the ears, have prevented the statue from serious erosion and weathering over the millennia. The drainage system of the Giant Buddha is a complex system made up of hidden gutters and channels, which carry away rainwater and keep the inner parts dry. This is why the great Buddha has survived intact up until modern times. Compared to when it was initially completed, the statue looks quite different from how it looks today. It once sat in a grand 13-story wooden pavilion which protected the carving from erosion. However, the pavilion was eventually destroyed at the end of the Ming Dynasty, exposing the statue to the elements.
The Origins of Dafo
The Leshan Giant Buddha statue is said to have been built to calm the turbulent waters that plagued passing boats and killed many people each year. So, in the Tang Dynasty, a monk named Hai Tong, decided to carve a giant statue beside the river, hoping it would appease the river gods and save more local people’s lives. With this belief, the Hai Tong Monk begged for 20 years to acquire enough funds to begin his work. According to legend, when some local government officials wanted to get large amounts of money from Hai Tong, he said they could have his eyeball but not the money raised for the Buddha statue. When government funding for the project was threatened, the monk is said to have gouged out his own eyes to show his sincerity and devotion to the cause. The officials were scared away, and Hai Tong saved the money and started the project in 713 AD. The project was half finished when he passed away and two of his disciples were left to continue the work. The project was finally completed 90 years later by the local governor in 803 AD. Since so much stone was removed from the cliff face and deposited into the river below during the construction, the currents of the rivers were, in fact, altered by the statue, making the waters safe for passing ships.
The Leshan Giant Buddha: A Museum of Buddhist Carvings
As the biggest carved stone Buddha in the world, Dafo is featured in Chinese poetry, song and story. For the ancient Chinese, building a statue of this size and stature was a way of thanking their gods. Even after its completion, people continued to carve Buddhas, small ones, all around this massive statue. On the cliffs beside the Giant Buddha, there are two carved stone warriors in battle robes, holding a halberd (a combined spear and battle-ax). Besides the Giant Buddha, are thousands of other carved Buddhas, making the mountain a museum of Buddhist carvings. Han Dynasty cliff tombs have also been found at the site and there is an onsite temple and shrine dedicated to Hai Tong near the Buddha. Mortuary artifacts have been found here as well making this area particularly important for archaeologists.
Today, erosion is the biggest threat to the Leshan Giant Buddha’s survival. The statue was nearly destroyed by the erosion of wind and rain before 1963, when the Chinese government began repair work and protection. In 1996, the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO inscribed the Mount Emei Scenic area and the Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area on their World Heritage List as a mixed cultural and natural property of the world. Since 2001, it has been rumored that the equivalent of over 40 million U.S. dollars has been spent to keep it intact.
Featured Image: Leshan Giant Buddha is the world's largest stone-carved Buddha (Wikimedia Commons)
Is this the eeriest paranormal footage ever captured? - unexplainable ghostly footage filmed at Warrington night club - Ghostly Footage Filmed At Night Club
Paranormal investigators have been called in to investigate after the weird footage weas captured on security cameras at the Dreamwater Lounge
The owner of a wine bar has called in paranormal experts after CCTV footage appeared to show a ‘ghostly’ figure walking down a corridor.
Footage from security cameras at shipwreck themed bar barin Warrington has been leaked on social media claiming there is a ghost.
The film shows the camera shaking and then a white figure appears to walk along the rope bridge area of the bar.
But despite owner Simon Ellison admitted the bar is quite spooky, he said the leaked footage had been edited to make it even more dramatic, Manchester Evening News reports.
Simon, 44, who is originally from Manchester but now lives in Denmark, said: “There is something there, moving along the rope bridge, but a lot of it has clearly been added.”
Wine bar manager reckons this eerie CCTV clip shows a figure floating through his hallway
Ghostly Footage Filmed At Night Club
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CCTV footage appears to show figure floating along hall at Cheshire bar Two spooky video clips show camera shaking before silhouette appears Venue owner claims to have experienced number of unexplainable events Bathroom taps turning on, strange noises and banging all reported by staff
This is the chilling moment a figure appeared to be caught on camera floating down the hallway of a bar in the early hours in one of the most astonishing pieces of paranormal activity ever captured.
The unnerving CCTV footage was taken at Dream Water Lounge wine spa, in Stockton Heath, Cheshire, and shows the camera shaking before a silhouette appears and moves down the hall.
In another segment of spooky footage taken at the unique bar, which opened in April, staff can be seen walking down a stairway before the lights go out and what appears to be rain falls on the camera.
Staff have regularly complained of an eerie and uncomfortable atmosphere at the premises, as well as a number of 'unexplained' occurrences such as taps turning on by themselves and loud banging.
A photograph among many those were taken along the travel of Pope Francis in Paraguay, one of them draws attention.
In the image, a dove that looks like a being made of supernatural light. Resting on the head of the Pontiff, the 'entity seems came from heaven in a huge beam of light energy. PARAGUAY. The Pope Francisco visit to Paraguay was a historic event. He arrived on Friday, July 10 - and ended his agenda in the country on the afternoon of sunday, July 12, 2015. This is the second visit of a Pope to Paraguay in the History of the country.
The Bishop of Rome attended a dozen events in public and private visits. He met civil and religious authorities (the Catholic Church), the diplomatic corps, representatives of different sectors of civil society, young people and residents of the poorer areas of the capital (city of Asuncion).
But the image that stays from this passage of the 'Pontifex at Paraguay is the supernatural picture of a bright dove - that seems come from heaven wrapped in a huge dense luminous fog - on the head of Francisco.
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This eerie video was recently shot in Mexico and it shows what appears to be a giant UFO or a fleet of UFOs flying in formation during a lightning storm.
Could they be replenishing their energy levels? The complexity and advanced technology of extraterrestrial craft pretty much guarantees they either use an exotic form of energy or have the ability to absorb energy from their surroundings.
We’ve seen UFOs absorbing water from lakes, giant spaceships [probably recharging from] our Sun, and flying saucers diving straight into Earth’s volcanoes.
Should our assumption that UFOs are advanced alien ships be correct, they could just as well harness the thermal energy available inside our planet’s mantle as well as the sun’s electromagnetism and radiance.
And since we’re in the land of hypotheses, it wouldn’t be impossible for them to exploit the immense electrostatic discharges during a lightning storm.
This video is unique given the fact that it is filmed in decent enough quality and doesn’t seem to have been tampered with. If the UFOs are computer generated, whoever created the video did a good job.
The objects are not placed on top of the background. They are consistent with the resolution of the video and appear to be inside the clouds.
Another hint towards the authenticity of the video and the presence of the unidentified objects is the fact that they seem to interact with the environment.
If you watch closely, at 0:42-0:43, the objects seem to reflect the lightning strikes, suggesting they are reflective to some degree. The same effect can be observed multiple times throughout the video.
But the most intriguing aspect can be seen at 1:19, when a particularly bright lightning flash lights up the sky. For a split second, it looks like the strange array of lights isn’t a UFO fleet, but one enormous mother ship.
This object(s) at the center of this sighting is/are very similar to the infamous Phoenix Lights of 1997, both in structure and behavior. But while skeptics have long claimed that illumination flares were responsible for the Phoenix incident, the same explanation cannot be forced here.
Military exercises that require illumination flares wouldn’t take place during a storm and lightning strikes wouldn’t make them shine brighter.
Examination of the video suggests the presence of one large metallic UFO or a fleet of smaller flying saucers.
