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context: sculpture > buddhist sculpture
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the great Buddha Vairocana from the Todaiji temple, 749 A.D. |
Todaiji Buddha
This is largely worth noting for its insane scale: over 50' high, needing over 50,000 carpenters and 370,000 metalsmiths to make it. The largest wooden structure in the world was built to house it. What we see now is reworked, statue and building (much smaller - but still the world's largest!).