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Leshan

Leshan Giant Buddha

The Leshan Giant Buddha is a 71-meter tall stone statue, built between 713 and 803. It is carved out of a cliff face of Cretaceous red bed sandstones that lies at the confluence of the Min River and Dadu River in the southern part of in China, near the city of .
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Artwork type: statue
  • Description: monumental sculpture
  • Also known as: “Giant Buddha of Leshan”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Wuyou Temple.

Forest
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is a located on the top of Mount Wuyou, in Shizhong District of , , . It is in the same area as the Leshan Giant Buddha and is the main and oldest temple in the area, being designated as Leshan's national key Buddhist temple.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Haitang Subdistrict and Lüxin.

Suburb
is a subdistrict in Shizhong District of , Sichuan, China. As of 2020, it administers the following 17 residential communities:…

Suburb
Xiaoba Subdistrict is a subdistrict in Shizhong District, , , . As of 2018, it has 6 residential communities under its administration. is situated 3½ km northwest of Leshan Giant Buddha.

Leshan Giant Buddha

Latitude
29.54692° or 29° 32′ 49″ north
Longitude
103.76931° or 103° 46′ 10″ east
Height
71 metres (233 feet)
Open location code
7PX5GQW9+QP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 620388965
Open­Street­Map feature
attraction=­artwork
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­monument
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map attribute
artwork_type=­statue
Wiki­data ID
Q205131
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Leshan Giant Buddha” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تمثال لاشان البوذي الكبير”
  • Arabic: “ليشان بودا العملاق”
  • Armenian: “Բուդդա Լեշանի”
  • Armenian: “Բուդդայի արձանը Լեշանում”
  • Asturian: “Gran Buda de Leshan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Leşanda Budda heykəli”
  • Belarusian: “Статуя Буды ў Лэшане”
  • Burmese: “လီရှန်ဗုဒ္ဓရုပ်ပွားတော်”
  • Burmese: “လဲ့ဆန်းဗုဒ္ဓရုပ်ပွားတော်”
  • Catalan: “Gran Buda de Leshan”
  • Chinese: “乐山大佛”
  • Chinese: “樂山大佛”
  • Croatian: “Leshan Buda”
  • Croatian: “Veliki Buda u Leshanu”
  • Czech: “Buddha v Le-šan”
  • Czech: “Buddha v Lešan”
  • Czech: “Buddha z Le-šanu”
  • Czech: “Buddhova socha v Le-šan”
  • Czech: “Da Fo”
  • Czech: “Lešanský Buddha”
  • Czech: “Leshanský buddha”
  • Czech: “Socha Buddhy v Le-šan”
  • Dutch: “Grote Boeddha van Leshan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ليشان بوذا العملاق”
  • Esperanto: “Da Fo”
  • Esperanto: “Leŝana giganta Budho”
  • Estonian: “Leshani Buddha kuju”
  • Finnish: “Leshanin jättiläisbuddha”
  • French: “Grand Bouddha de Leshan”
  • French: “Paysage panoramique du mont Emei, incluant le paysage panoramique du Grand Bouddha de Leshan”
  • Galician: “Gran Buda de Leshan”
  • German: “Buddha von Leshan”
  • German: “Grosser Buddha von Leshan”
  • German: “Großer Buddha von Leshan”
  • German: “Großer Buddha”
  • German: “Leshan Dafo”
  • German: “Lèshān Dàfó”
  • German: “樂山大佛”
  • Hebrew: “פסל בודהה הענק בלשאן”
  • Hindi: “लेशान के विशाल बुद्ध”
  • Hungarian: “lösani óriás Buddha”
  • Hungarian: “Lösani óriás Buddha”
  • Indonesian: “Buddha Raksasa Leshan”
  • Indonesian: “乐山大佛”
  • Italian: “Buddha gigante di Leshan”
  • Japanese: “楽山大仏”
  • Javanese: “Buda Raseksa Leshan”
  • Javanese: “Buddha Raksasa Leshan”
  • Kazakh: “Лышан алып буддасы”
  • Kazakh: “Лышан алып Буддасы”
  • Korean: “낙산대불”
  • Korean: “러산 대불”
  • Korean: “러산대불”
  • Lithuanian: “Didysis Lešano Buda”
  • Macedonian: “Голем Буда во Лешан”
  • Malay: “Buddha Gergasi Leshan”
  • Malayalam: “ലെഷാനിലെ ബൃഹത് ബുദ്ധൻ”
  • Maltese: “Buddha Ġgantesk ta‘ Leshan”
  • Maltese: “Buddha Ġgantesk ta’ Leshan”
  • Maltese: “Buddha ta‘ Leshan”
  • Marathi: “लेशान जायंट बुद्ध”
  • Nepali: “लेशानकाे विशाल बुद्ध”
  • Nepali: “लेसानकाे विशाल बुद्ध प्रतिमा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kjempebuddhaen i Leshan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kjempebuddhaen i Leshan”
  • Norwegian: “Kjempebuddhaen i Leshan”
  • Persian: “بودای بزرگ لشان”
  • Polish: “Wielki Budda z Leshan”
  • Portuguese: “Buda Gigante de Leshan”
  • Portuguese: “Grande Buda de Leshan”
  • Portuguese: “Paisagem do Grande Buda de Leshan”
  • Rakhine: “လဲ့ဆန်းဗုဒ္ဓရုပ်ပွားတော်”
  • Romanian: “Marele Buddha din Leshan”
  • Russian: “Большой Будда Лэшаня”
  • Russian: “Статуя Будды в Лэшане”
  • Russian: “Статуя Будды в Лэшань”
  • Sakizaya: “Lesan tabakiay a sasamian”
  • Serbian: “Статуа Буде у Лешану”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Veliki Buda u Leshanu”
  • Sinhala: “ලීසාන් බුදු පිළිමය”
  • Slovak: “Budha z Le-šanu”
  • Slovenian: “Lešanski veliki Buda”
  • Spanish: “Buda gigante de Lushan”
  • Spanish: “Gran Buda de Leshan”
  • Swedish: “Jättebuddhan i Leshan”
  • Tamil: “லெஷென் மாபெரும் புத்தர்”
  • Telugu: “లెషన్ జెయింట్ బుద్ధ”
  • Thai: “พระพุทธรูปเขาเล่อซาน”
  • Thai: “พระพุทธรูปเล่อชาน”
  • Turkish: “Büyük Leshan Budası”
  • Ukrainian: “Статуя Будди в Лешань”
  • Vietnamese: “Đại Phật Lạc Sơn”
  • Vietnamese: “Đại Phật Nhạc Sơn”
  • Vietnamese: “Gia Định Đại Phật”
  • Vietnamese: “Lạc Sơn Đại Phật”
  • Vietnamese: “Lăng Vân Đại Phật”
  • Yue Chinese: “樂山大佛”

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