In a recent development, a famous statue entitled the Pillar of Shame for commemorating the infamous Tiananmen Square Massacre was dismantled and removed from the University of Hong Kong. This incident has resulted in widespread backlash and criticism. The statue represented several corpses piled up together. The 1989 event marked a black day in China’s ...
In Butte, Montana, a 90-foot statue of the Virgin Mary, known as Our Lady of the Rockies, stands high on top of the Rocky Mountains, honoring women everywhere, regardless of religion or belief. But do you know the heartfelt story of how she came to exist in this place? This towering icon stands on the rocky ...
On February 2, a statue of the Boddhisatva Guanyin that was carved into a cliff in Hebei Province was detonated and destroyed. The Buddhist statue took five years to complete and cost approximately 17 million RMB to build, but in just a few moments the statue, which represented traditional Chinese culture, was turned into rubble, ...
Huiyun was a monk from Xiangguo Temple in Luoyang during the Tang Dynasty. In the first year of the Linde era of Emperor Tang Gaozong’s reign (A.D. 664-665), Huiyun at 10 years of age decided to become a monk. His father was very open-minded and knew that cultivation in Buddhism can sow good seeds for ...
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