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Message: <blockquote data-quote="සුදර්ම" data-source="post: 6973980" data-attributes="member: 263906">Bahamian Buddha being carvedBuddha statue on the lines of the Bahamian Buddha being carved       By Gayan Kumara Weerasingha       The carving of the world’s largest stone Buddha statue out of a rock at Rambadagalla, Moneragala Vidyasara pirivena temple, in Kurunegala, is in its final stages. The statue which is 67.5 feet in height is carved completely out of rock. This rock which stood in a corner of the temple premises hidden by a clump of trees will become the world’s largest stone Buddha statue in the world shortly. “When the Bahamian Buddha statue in Afghanistan was destroyed in 2001, we Buddhists felt really bad. Everyone talked about the Bahamian statue that was destroyed in Afghanistan. “In March that year I happened to go to Kerala province in India because the Kerala- Sri Lanka friendship association had bought a land in Kerala and built a temple there. I went there for a ‘pinkama’. I had to deliver a sermon in English. It was a grand ceremony and a sapling of the Sri Maha Bodhi was also planted at the temple. There was a Buddhist by the name of Lakshman who was about 86 years old at that time. He had been born in Kerala but was living in America. During the ceremony, we were talking about the destroyed Bahamian statue. I said that we intend to make a statue in place of the destroyed Bahamian Buddha.” After that incident, I talked about this statue again on Wesak Poya day in 2001 and subsequently people decided that we should carve a statue on the lines of the Bahamian statue. Meanwhile, though the work on the statue had begun, skilled craftsmen were found much later.<img src="http://www.lakbimanews.lk/img/3-2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><a href="http://www.lakbimanews.lk/news/laknew4.htm" target="_blank">http://www.lakbimanews.lk/news/laknew4.htm</a></blockquote>

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