Gigantic Buddha at Thimpu!

Here is my entry for Frank’s over at Dutch Goes the Photo Blog Tuesday Photo Challenge – Go Big.

And A Photo a Week Challenge : From the Back

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Atop a hill in Thimphu, the capital and largest city of Bhutan, is a massive, golden Buddha sitting atop a gilded meditation hall. But the monument holds an invisible secret: Unbeknownst to many people viewing the statue, they aren’t actually looking at one Buddha, they’re looking at 125,000 of them. It is known as Buddha Dordenma statue.

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A closeup of the smaller statues around the gigantic Buddha, to show the enormous size of the the main statue.

Clicked this picture during my recent trip to Bhutan.

Spreading happiness – ‘The happy country – Bhutan’

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