Leshan Giant Buddha

The Leshan Giant Buddha is a 71-meter tall stone statue, built between 712 and 804 AD. 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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  • Tourist attraction
  • …is a statue
  • …is also known as “Giant Buddha of Leshan”
  • …stands 71 metres (233 feet) tall
  • Description: monumental sculpture

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Wuyou Temple.
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Forest
is a located on the top…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Haitang Subdistrict and Lüxin.
Suburb
is a subdistrict in Shizhong District of , Sichuan, China.
Suburb
Xiaoba Subdistrict is a subdistrict in Shizhong District, , , China. is situated 3½ km northwest of Leshan Giant Buddha.

Leshan Giant Buddha

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Latitude
29.54692° or 29° 32′ 49″ north
Longitude
103.76931° or 103° 46′ 10″ east
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”
  • Basque: “Leshango Buda Handia”
  • 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 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”
  • Georgian: “ლეშანის გიგანტური ბუდა”
  • German: “Buddha von Leshan”
  • German: “Grosser Buddha von Leshan”
  • German: “Großer Buddha von Leshan”
  • German: “Großer Buddha”
  • German: “Lèshān Dàfó”
  • German: “樂山大佛”
  • Hebrew: “פסל בודהה הענק בלשאן”
  • Hindi: “लेशान के विशाल बुद्ध”
  • 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”
  • Kannada: “ಲೆಶಾನ್ ಮಹಾ ಬುದ್ಧ”
  • Kazakh: “Лышан алып буддасы”
  • Korean: “낙산대불”
  • Korean: “러산 대불”
  • Lithuanian: “Didysis Lešano Buda”
  • Macedonian: “Голем Буда во Лешан”
  • Malay: “Buddha Gergasi Leshan”
  • Malayalam: “ലെഷാനിലെ ബൃഹത് ബുദ്ധൻ”
  • 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”
  • Tulu: “ಲೇಶನ್ ದೈತ್ಯ ಬುದ್ಧ”
  • 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”
  • Western Frisian: “Grutte Boeda fan Leshan”
  • Yue Chinese: “樂山大佛”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Floating Jade Pavilion and Cave of Haitong Master.

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