Tian Tan Buddha

The Big Buddha is a large bronze sculpture of Buddha, completed in 1993, and located at , near on , Hong Kong.
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  • Type: Work of art
  • Artwork type: statue
  • Description: The second largest outdoor bronze Buddha in the world
  • Also known as: “Big Buddha”, “The Big Buddha”, “Tian Tan Buddha Statue”, and “Tiāntán Dàfó”
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Ngong Ping Cable Car Terminal and Nei Lak Shan.

Aerial lift
Photo: Wing1990hk, CC BY 3.0.
The Ngong Ping Terminal is a station of Ngong Ping 360, a gondola lift line, located on 's in . It was opened on 18 September 2006. is situated 450 metres northwest of Tian Tan Buddha.

Peak
Photo: Minghong, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the eighth highest mountain in Hong Kong. With a height of 751 m, it is situated on immediately north of where the Buddhist is located.

Peak
Photo: Ngchikit, Public domain.
, or Fung Wong Shan, is a mountain in Lantau South Country Park, Lantau Island, Hong Kong. It is the second-highest peak in Hong Kong and the highest point on the island, with a height of 934 metres above the Hong Kong Principal Datum, or around 933 metres above mean sea level.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Luk Wu and Tei Tong Tsai.

Hamlet
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Tsuen is an area and a village of in , home to several Buddhist monasteries. The place was named as such since deer could be found there in the past and the landscape looks like a lake.

Locality
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is a village on , .

Hamlet
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is a village of , in . is situated 2½ km northwest of Tian Tan Buddha.

Tian Tan Buddha

Latitude
22.25396° or 22° 15′ 14″ north
Longitude
113.90501° or 113° 54′ 18″ east
Elevation
475 metres (1,558 feet)
Height
34 metres (112 feet)
Open location code
7PJM7W34+H2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2335541040
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­artwork
Open­Street­Map attribute
artwork_type=­statue
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Geo­Names ID
6951521
Wiki­data ID
Q528079
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Tian Tan Buddha” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تمثال بوذا الكبير”
  • Armenian: “Մեծ Բուդդա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Böyük Budda”
  • Bulgarian: “Тиен Тан Буда”
  • Burmese: “ထီယန်တန်ဗုဒ္ဓရုပ်ပွားတော်”
  • Cebuano: “Tian Tan Boeddha”
  • Chinese: “天坛大佛”
  • Chinese: “天壇大佛”
  • Dutch: “Tian Tan Boeddha”
  • Dutch: “Tian Tan-Boeddha”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تمثال تيان تان بوذا”
  • French: “Bouddha de Tian Tan”
  • Galician: “Buda Tian Tan”
  • Georgian: “ტიან ტან ბუდა”
  • German: “Tian Tan Buddha”
  • German: “Tiāntán Dàfó”
  • Hebrew: “בודהה טיאן טאן”
  • Hebrew: “הבודהה הגדולה”
  • Hungarian: “Tien Tan Buddha-szobor”
  • Indonesian: “Buddha Tian Tan”
  • Indonesian: “Tian Tan Buddha”
  • Japanese: “天壇大仏”
  • Korean: “천단대불”
  • Korean: “티안 탄 부처상”
  • Mingrelian: “ტიან ტან ბუდა”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tian Tan Buddha”
  • Norwegian: “Tian Tan Buddha”
  • Persian: “بودای تیان تن”
  • Polish: “Budda Tian Tan”
  • Polish: “Tiāntán Dàfó”
  • Polish: “tin1 taan4 daai6 fat6”
  • Polish: “天壇大佛”
  • Portuguese: “Tian Tan Buddha”
  • Rakhine: “ထီယန်တန်ဗုဒ္ဓရုပ်ပွားတော်”
  • Russian: “Большой Будда”
  • Spanish: “Buda Tian Tan”
  • Swedish: “Tian Tan Boeddha”
  • Swedish: “Tian Tan Buddha”
  • Tamil: “டயான் டான் புத்தர்”
  • Tamil: “தியான் தான் புத்தர்”
  • Vietnamese: “Tượng Phật Thiên Đàn”
  • Wu Chinese: “天坛大佛”
  • Yue Chinese: “天壇大佛”

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