How has the role of water and Chinese religion merged here?
Portfolio Questions: Why do people live the way they do? Geography: The Leshan Giant Buddha is the largest sculpted one in the world (Remember, the Taliban dynamited the former largest one in Afghanistan (Article)). This giant 233 feet Buddha is carved out of a cliff face that lies at the confluence (coming together/intersection) of the Minjiang, Dadu and Qingyi rivers in the southern part of Sichuan Province, China. It faces the sacred Mt. Emei (Buddhist mountain where the first Buddhist temple in China was built.) and lies near the city of Leshan. Leshan Buddha Google Earth Map A map of Leshan and the Buddha (with rivers labeled) Background: Construction of this giant sculpture began in 713 C.E. during the Tang dynasty (Buddhism originated in India in the fifth century B.C.E., then spread to Asia). A Chinese Buddhist monk wanted to create this Buddha sculpture so that it may guard and calm the rough waters for flooding and passing ships. There were many wrecks and floods that resulte
