Renshou Giant Buddha ( zh, t=仁壽大佛, s=仁寿大佛, first=t, p=Rénshòu Dàfó), also known as Niujiaozhai Giant Buddha (), is a large stone Buddha located within

Renshou County Renshou County () is a county in Meishan, Meishan City, Sichuan Province of China. It is located in Middle-West of Sichuan Basin. It has an area of , and population of 1,110,017 in 2020. Founded in the Qin dynasty. Its name may derive from the fir ...

Sichuan Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Cheng ...

. It is 60 kilometers south of

Chengdu Chengdu; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ; Chinese postal romanization, previously Romanization of Chinese, romanized as Chengtu. is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan. With a ...

. The Buddha was carved in 707 during the

Tang dynasty The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, c=唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an Wu Zhou, interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed ...

. It was constructed six years earlier in the nearby famous

Leshan Giant Buddha The Leshan Giant Buddha ( zh, t=樂山大佛) is a tall stone statue, built between 713 and 803 (during the Tang dynasty). It is carved out of a cliff face of Cretaceous red bed sandstones that lies at the confluence of the Minjiang River (Sic ...

. Located around the statue are over 101 shrines belonging to Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism.

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