Mount Emei
locates in Emeishan City of Sichuan Province (The city's
name came from Mount Emei). There are many kinds of geologic
physiognomy, plants and animals. Mount Emei is the
"Nature Geological Museum", "the Nature
Arboretum" and "the Kingdom of Animals".
Hundreds of nature scenic and many temples are dispersed
over the mount. More than 5,000 kinds of plants and more
than 2,300 kinds of animals are existed up to now. The
living fossil of wood plant-Davidic involucrate and cyathea
spinulosa, a rare plant on the verge of distinction, are
under Grade-A protection. The existing temples include
Baoguosi Monastery, Wanniansi Monastery, fuhusi Monastery,
Xianfengsi Monastery, Qianfo Monastery, the Elephant-washing
Pool and Huazang (Avatamsaka) Monastery on the Golden Sumit,
etc.
The
world's biggest stone statue of seated Maitreya made in the
Tang Dynasty - the Giant Leshan Buddha totals 71 metres
high. The head measures 10 meters in diameter, the eyebrow
3.7 meters long, the eye 3.3 meters, the nose 5.6 meters,
the mouth 3.3 meters and the ear 7 meters. The foot is large
enough for 100 people to stand on.
The world's biggest stone statue of
seated Maitreya made in the Tang Dynasty - the Giant Leshan
Buddha totals 71 meters high. The head measures 10 meters in
diameter, the eyebrow 3.7 meters long, the eye 3.3 meters,
the nose 5.6 meters, the mouth 3.3 meters and the ear 7
meters. The foot is large enough for 100 people to stand on.