108M South Sea Guanyin Stature [Sanya]

Nanshan has been deemed an auspicious and blessed land in Brahma and links with many historic facts and legends. According to the record from Buddhism scriptures, Guanyin Buddha vowed twelve oaths to save all living beings. To dwell at South Sea permanently is the second oath of the twelve. Master Jianzhen, the renowned monk in the Tang Dynasty, tried in vain five times to sail eastward to Japan to preach Buddha's teaching. On his fifth sail to Japan, he drifted to Nanshan by a typhoon. While staying in Nanshan for one year and a half, he set up a temple and did missionary work, and then, finally succeeded in his sixth voyage to Japan. The Japanese travel monk named Konghai also landed at Nanshan on his way to learn Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty. The well known saying "Good fortune as boundless as the East Sea, Long life as great as Nanshan Mountain" shows further the Nanshan's origin of relations between Chinese traditional culture of auspiciousness and longevity.

The construction of Nanshan Buddhism Cultural Theme Park was started in Nov. 1995 and was completed and opened to the public in April 1998. The park consists of sites and sceneries with concept of Buddhist Culture including "Nanshan Temple" with Tang Dynasty style, the scenery of the main entrance "Dharma-Door of Nonduality" with the style of South-North Dynasty, "Savior Garden" with Guanyin culture, "Auspicious Garden" characterized with Japanese and European landscape style, "Longevity Valley" with two thousand meters up to Nanshan mountain covered with tropical forest, "Tree Houses" a marvelous ecological spectacle, built on tamarind trees on the beach sand dune, "Gold and Jade Guanyin Statue" which has been put into the Word Guinness Record, the world largest inkstone "Dragon- Phoenix Inkstone" with the weight of 36 tons, famous "Yu's Clay Sculpture Workshop", "Brahma Bells Collection Garden" and further more a marvelous phenomenon and world focus, the giant Nanshan Guanyin Statue standing on the South Sea with the height of 108 meters and "three figures in one" of great magnificence. This project, called "the No.1 statue project in the world as well as in the century", took 6 years for the construction period and will have the grand opening by holding a great Buddhism ceremony in the year of 2005.

The service facilities are in their perfection with a shopping street, battery tour cars, deluxe sea view hotel, four-star leisure villas, tree houses, a unique vegetarian restaurant named "Heaven Restaurant", Chinese Restaurant, Nanshan Homely-Food Restaurant, Nanshan Iron-plate Barbecue, Coffee Break, swimming pools, beauty salon, health massage, sauna, tennis court, individual and family bicycle tour along the beach road of Nanshan Bay.

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