Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1900 — Big Image of Buddha. [ARTICLE]

Big Image of Buddha.

In Japan Is the Kotokuin monastery, which was one of the many erected by the Emperor Thomu about 737 A. D. The image outside the monastery represents Buddha, was made of bronte in the year 1250, and Is fifty feet high, qlnety-elght feet in waist circumference, has a face over eight feet long, an eye four feet, ear nearly seven feet, a mouth over three feet broad, and a nose four feet long. The circumference of the thumb is over three feet.