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Seventeen metres tall, a seated figure larger than the Great Buddha of Nara.
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Echizen Daibutsu is a great Buddha at Daishizan Seidaiji, a Rinzai sect Myoshinji school temple in Katsuyama, Fukui. It is also called the Shusse Daibutsu. It was created in 1987 by the businessman Tada Kiyoshi as a tourist facility and was approved as a religious corporation in 2002. It is a great Buddha of Vairocana Nyorai, modeled on the seated figure at Fengxian Temple in the Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang, People's Republic of China. The statue is 17.0 m tall. It was built by Tada Kiyoshi, a local-born businessman and founder of Sogo Taxi, and the eye-opening ceremony was held on May 28, 1987 (Showa 62).
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Founded：1987 Blessings：Warding off evil
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