During our time in Wuxi, we also visited the Great Buddha at Lingshan. Built only several years ago, the Great Buddha stands at 88 meters (96.24 yards) tall, excluding the lotus stand on the bottom. If you include the lotus stand, then the Great Buddha measures to over a 100 meters high.
While the Great Buddha itself was very impressively large, personally I felt that it was built using Buddhism as an excuse to build a large tourist attraction to increase tourism revenue in the area. But at least now I can say I've been there.
Fountain during "Birth of Buddha" show
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