The flooding was also threatening the Leshan Giant Buddha, a 1,200-year-old UNESCO world heritage site. The 233-foot-tall stone statue is carved into a cliff in Leshan Mountain, overlooking three ...

Over the centuries, the cultural treasures grew in number. The most remarkable is the Giant Buddha of Leshan, carved out of a hillside in the 8th century and looking down on the confluence of three ...

After visiting the Province’s capital city of Chengdu in our last edition, let’s head to center of the province and take a look at the Leshan Dafo, or the Giant Stone Buddha in Leshan City.

Floods in southern China have caused water from the Yangtze River to rise and reach the toes of a famous towering statue of the Buddha – reportedly for the first time in decades. Leshan’s ...

On August 18, 2020, flood waters threatened the Leshan Giant Buddha following heavy rains in Leshan in China's southwestern Sichuan province, where thousands of residents have been displaced by ...

Aerial photo taken on Aug. 23, 2022 shows the Leshan Giant Buddha in southwest China's Sichuan Province. Facing the confluence of the Minjiang, Dadu and Qingyi rivers which saw the decrease of ...

If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. The Leshan Giant Buddha in the province of Sichuan — the largest Buddha statue in the world — was partly ...

Tourists view the statue of the Leshan Giant Buddha in Leshan City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 26, 2019. The giant Buddha in southwest China's Sichuan Province reopened to tourists ...