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Huge Buddha Statue Almost Finished After Nearly 10 Years

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A mammoth 240 foot tall pure copper Buddha statue weighing nearly 600 tons is in the final stages of construction after nearly a decade of building atop the Xiantang Mountain in China. The massive Buddha will not be finished until 2018, despite work starting on the immense idol back in 2009. In its entirety, the giant is around 22 storeys tall and has a base which covers around 54,000 square fee. $59 million has been invested into the statue which depicts Buddha, upon whose teachings Buddhism was founded.

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