Mengshan Giant Buddha in Mengshan, Shanxi Province

1: Located in Sidi Village, Jinyuan District, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province. According to archaeological records, the height of Mengshan Giant Buddha is about 59 meters. However, due to the damage at the end of Yuan Dynasty, the head of Buddha was lost, and now it is about 48 meters high, making it the second largest cliff carved Buddha after Leshan Giant Buddha. It was built earlier than Leshan Giant Buddha, and should be the world's first open-air cliff carved Buddha statue.

Mengshan Giant Buddha is the Buddha statue behind Kaihua Temple. Kaihua Temple was built in 559 AD (Tianbao two years in Northern Qi Dynasty). During the Northern Qi Dynasty, Wen Xuandi Levin donated a sum of money to Kaihua Temple. After the temple, a stone was chiseled to build a road, and a mile away from the temple, a Buddha statue was carved on the mountain, that is, Mengshan Giant Buddha.

3. At the end of Yuan Dynasty, it was destroyed by war and eroded by wind and rain. The Mengshan Buddha, once specially built by Wu Zetian, has turned into a pile of stones covered with weeds, and the huge Buddha head has disappeared.

4. Since 2006, the relevant units have started the protection and restoration of the cultural relics of Mengshan Giant Buddha in an all-round way, and it was not until 2008 that Mengshan Giant Buddha began to open to social tourists.

Extended data:

(1) Mengshan Giant Buddha is a cliff giant Buddha, located in the northwest of Sidi Village, Jinyuan District, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, and is a cultural relic protection unit in Taiyuan City.

(2) 1980 In Taiyuan's place name census, Mengshan Giant Buddha was rediscovered. When it was discovered, the Buddha's head had disappeared, and the Buddha's body was buried in rocks and rocks, which was severely weathered.

(3) Since 2007, Taiyuan has protected and developed the Mengshan Giant Buddha, reinforced the Buddha's body, and built a new Buddha's head with a height of 12 meters with reference to the Beiqi Buddha's head unearthed in Taiyuan. June 5438+October 2008 10, Mengshan Giant Buddha was opened to the public.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Mengshan Buddha