Ushiku Daibutsu

The Ushiku Daibutsu (牛 久 大 仏Japanese; " great Buddha of Ushiku " ), a representation of the Buddha Amitabha is around 100 meters above sea level one of the highest statues in the world. The statue was completed in 1995 located in Ushiku, around 50 km north-east of Tokyo, in the Japanese prefecture of Ibaraki.

Importance

The Ushiku Daibutsu stands in the middle of a park, which is now called Ushiku Arcadia. The name Arcadia is Amida 's Radiance and Compassion Actually Developing and Illuminating are this Area, dt: Amida's charisma and compassion rise up and illuminate this place. Originally known as Jodo Teien, the Place of Reflection on the Way of the Bodhisattva Dharmakara ( Hozo Bosatsu ), who achieved according to tradition, after a long period of practice enlightenment and became the Buddha Amitabha is used.

The hands of Amitabha are shown in the Vitarka mudra. The right is raised, lowered the left, both have with the palms facing the viewer, with the thumb and index finger touch at the tips and the other three fingers are stretched respectively. It is the gesture of exposition of the doctrine (see Dharma ) and symbolizes how Amitabha leads his audience through persuasion on the path to enlightenment.

The statue

The outer shell of the statue consists of more than 6000 bronze plates with a thickness of 6 mm. The basis is a lotus -shaped base and a platform, both approximately 10 m high, which makes the total height is 120 m.

About an elevator, visitors can get to a viewing platform at 85 m height.

• Weight: 4000 tons
• Length of the left hand: 18 m
• Length of the face: 20 m
• Length of an eye: 2.5 m
• Length of the mouth: 4 m
• Nose length: 1.2 m
• Length of ear: 10 m