Talk:List of statues by height

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The Volgograd Motherland statue is mentioned twice with differing heights. Can someone please choose the correct one and delete the other?12.214.172.85 11:08, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

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There is a 20m (66ft) Statue of Sam Houston in Huntsville, Tx that should be added to the list.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sam_Houston_Huntsville_Statue.jpg —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.68.37.168 (talk) 17:46, 29 December 2007 (UTC)


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[edit] Two statues

One is in Volgograd and second is in Kiev (Ukraine). They share similar name. --Yonkie 18:35, 25 August 2007 (UTC)


Is there a typo in the caption for the Bingling statue? It says "Buddha of the Blingling temple, China" rest of the article refers to it as the Bingling temple (note the extra l in caption). DotCOMmie 00:14, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] The tallest Buddha?

Near Monywa city in Myanmar recently was constructed a Standing Buddha statue, that is claimed to be tallest or 2-tallest in the world. Although the inauguration ceremony still wasn't held (the works inside the statue were not finished yet, when I saw it June 2007), but it has already reached its final height of 130 m (115 m without the base). you can see more details here: http://www.myanmarplg.com/eng/Myanmar_News/myanmar_news.html#95 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.130.252.69 (talk) 22:46, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Spring Temple Buddha

I have searched the internet for hours now, but I can´t find a single website or image of the "Spring temple Buddha". No other site that lists the tallest statues, mention this one. The only picture I´ve seen of it is the satellite-photo. Can anyone tell where I can find regular photo´s of it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Svanainposition (talk • contribs) 23:00, 8 February 2008 (UTC)


There's some images of the statue in the page of the temple itself: http://zhai.fosss.org/goto_zy.asp?id=5421 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Royut (talk • contribs) 03:46, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hermannsdenkmal

The statue of 53.46m is missing completely? --89.53.7.225 (talk) 17:37, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Added (with the height of the statue itself, 26,57 m). --89.53.7.225 (talk) 23:50, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Buddha statues

Why are they building all these massive Buddha statues? And now they are gonna build another gigantic one in Uttar Pradesh and even a few others in other parts of the world. I mean why? There aren't so many gigantic 50+ meter statues of Jesus or of any other person.
I'm simply curious about the reason behind building all those gigantic statues of Buddhas? Could you explain it to me in a paragraph right below this? Thx! --Topk (talk) 00:10, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

In Buddhism, the making of Buddha-images is generally considered to create merit. Of course, they wouldn't necessarily need to be 50+ meters high! This aspect can be largely be explained in terms of competitiveness, and a desire for prestige and attention. For example, the Maitreya Project is intended to bring peace to Tibet; fulfull the wishes of the FPMT's lamas; attract attention and prestige for that organization; and not incidentally, be taller than China's Leshan Big Buddha. Chinese Buddhists, not to be outdone by Tibetans, have apparently just built a Vairocana statue that is even taller than the Maitreya Project's planned Maitreya. The same kind of behavior can also be observed with temple-contruction. --Dawud —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.60.55.9 (talk) 00:47, 31 March 2008 (UTC)