http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-19/t ... go/9773126A giant Buddha carved from a single piece of jade has taken pride of place inside the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in central Victoria.
The stupa — a sacred Buddhist monument — stands 50 metres high and 50 metres wide at its base, making it the largest of its type in the western world.
Rising up from the central Victorian bush, the $20 million building includes the 2.5-metre high, four-tonne Buddha carved from a massive boulder of nephrite-jade found in the Yukon in the far northwest of Canada. ...
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