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Echizen Great Buddha

Fukui · · Culture & History

Japanese name: 越前大仏

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WHAT TO DOEchizen Great Buddha

At Daishizan Seidaiji. Its principal image follows the seated Buddha of the Longmen Grottoes in China.

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At Daishizan Seidaiji. Its principal image follows the seated Buddha of the Longmen Grottoes in China.

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The Echizen Daibutsu is a great Buddha statue at Seidaiji on Daishizan, a Rinzai-sect Myoshinji-school temple in Katsuyama, Fukui Prefecture. It is also called the Shusse Daibutsu (Success Great Buddha). It was founded in 1987 by the businessman Tada Kiyoshi as a tourist facility and received religious corporation approval in 2002. It is a great Buddha of Vairocana Tathagata, modeled on the seated statue at Longmen Fengxian Temple in Luoyang, People's Republic of China. The statue is 17.0 m tall. It was erected by Tada Kiyoshi, a local-born businessman and founder of Sogo Taxi, and its eye-opening ceremony was held on 28 May 1987 (Showa 62).

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