{"id":2525,"date":"2013-10-28T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T04:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/?p=2525"},"modified":"2013-10-28T10:00:06","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T04:30:06","slug":"tallest-statue-of-lord-buddhasarnathindia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/tallest-statue-of-lord-buddhasarnathindia\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallest Statue of Lord Buddha,Sarnath,India"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarnath<\/strong>\u00a0 is about 10 kms. from Varanasi<\/strong> also is the place where Lord Buddha<\/strong> gave his first sermon to five of \u00a0his companions( Kaundinya, Bashpa, Bhadrika, Mahanaman <\/strong>and Ashvajit<\/strong> ) in 500 B.C. The place has a number of Stupas (hemispherical domes)<\/strong> and monasteries. In the early days of \u00a0Buddhism<\/strong>, Stupas were built to\u00a0honor\u00a0important events including Gautam’s<\/strong> enlightenment<\/strong> to become Buddha .<\/strong>
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The Tallest Statue of Lord Buddha at Sarnath India<\/p><\/div>
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\nEighty feet tall statue of the Lord Buddha<\/strong>, which is the world’s tallest \u00a0statue after the ones demolished in Afganistan’s Bamiyan valley<\/strong>\u00a0.\u00a0It took 14 years to\u00a0construct\u00a0this statue. The work on the statue was started in 1997 and it was unveiled in 2011. This standing statue of Lord Buddha<\/strong> is located in the premises of \u00a0Thai Buddha Vihar in Sarnath also known as\u00a0\u00a0Mrigdayavan Mahavihar Society.<\/strong>.\u00a0The\u00a0construction\u00a0of statue is said to have started as a gesture to protest the destruction of Buddhist statues in many parts of the world.
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Statue of Lord Buddha at Sarnath<\/p><\/div>
\nLocated in the garden of the Thai Temple in Sarnath<\/strong>, the statue consists of \u00a0845 stones blocks<\/strong> \u00a0each about two feet wide and three feet high and the head alone is 15 feet tall<\/strong>,\u00a0There is a beautiful garden around the statue .\u00a0Built in Gandhar style<\/strong>, the statue is \u00a0placed on a Lotus<\/strong> symbolising the spread of religion from India to other parts of the world with the message of love and peace ,\u00a0The octagonal pedestal have engravings depicting four important Buddhist religious places<\/strong>, including Dhammek Stupa<\/strong>, Bodh Gaya<\/strong>\u00a0and Lumbini .\u00a0<\/strong>The total cost of construction\u00a0was contributed by a number of Buddhist and non-Buddhist devotees across the world
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Sarnath\u00a0 is about 10 kms. from Varanasi also is the place where Lord Buddha gave his first sermon to five of \u00a0his companions( Kaundinya, Bashpa, Bhadrika, Mahanaman and Ashvajit ) in 500 B.C. The place has a number of Stupas (hemispherical domes) and monasteries. In the early days of \u00a0Buddhism, Stupas were built to\u00a0honor\u00a0important events … →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,12,19,21],"tags":[66,178,261,271,280,356,397,644,793,1106,1322,1584,1642,1715,1893,2470,2713,2740,2834,3019],"class_list":["post-2525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-buddhist-monuments","category-history","category-pilgrimage","category-religious-belief","tag-afganistan-bamiyan","tag-ashvajit","tag-bashpa","tag-beautiful","tag-bhadrika","tag-bodh-gaya","tag-buddha","tag-dhammek-stupa","tag-four-important-buddhist-religious-places","tag-india","tag-kaundinya","tag-lord-buddha","tag-lumbini","tag-mahanaman","tag-mrigdayavan-mahavihar-society","tag-sarnath","tag-standing-statue-of-lord-buddha","tag-stupas","tag-thai-temple-in-sarnath","tag-varanasi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}