World’s Largest Jade Buddha.

Posted by Alex in Pictures, Travel & Places, World Records on January 20, 2007 at 2:31 pm


W.Y. of Random Citations has a post of this amazing sculpted Buddha: the world’s largest jade Buddha statue!

The statue was sculpted from a piece of jade 7.95 meters high, 6.88 meters wide, 4.10 meters thick, weighing 260.76 tons. This piece of jade was found in the nearby Xiuyan town, known as "hometown of jade", on 22 July 1960.

Link [wiki] - via Random Citations


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