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The 50-ft shape of the seated Giant Buddha extend high into Maiji Shan/Mountain  
   

The 50-ft shape of the seated Giant Buddha extend high into Maiji Shan/Mountain

The impressive figure of a 50-ft (16-m) tall seated Buddha and 40-ft (13-m) tall attending Bodhisattvas are located on the eastern cliff and were first created during Sui Dynasty, some 1,400 years ago.
#128 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College, China (Maiji Mountain Caves in Tianshui, Gansu)

December 18th 2010
Tianshui City is the second largest city in Gansu Province of China, and is located about 4 hours S.E. of Lanzhou, the capitol of Gansu, the largest city in Gansu. Tianshui City, a smaller community of some 5 Million inhabitants, is continuing to develop into a more modern city, but still retains much of the flavor of an older Chinese city along the Yellow River. As one of the main settleme ... read more
Asia » China » Gansu » TianShui

Chinese Flag For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more
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