BIG FOOT (INSIDE THE CAVE OF FULL ENLIGHTENMENT) – THE WORLD HERITAGE SITE
By the Administrator
Big Foot – a hilly town not far away from Chung Ching City, is a renowned World Heritage Site as granted by UNESCO. Statues and images of basically Buddhist legends, at the time of making imported from India, unescapably influenced by local Taoist and Confucians teachings, such as fidelity and loyalty, apart from the cultivation of ‘Boddhi Heart’ which is essentially Buddhist in nature.
Below are some pictures of the stone carving culture on the mountain and man-made cave which was undertaken by the artists about 800 years ago which engaged about 70 of them over more than 20 years’ mental and physical labour.
One reason that these statues and art works were not destroyed during the cultural revolution was that they were in a very remote region and not easily accessible by normal transport at that time
The Saints from the West. Mind you, they are huge, each statue is bigger than a human body
The cave and statues were all carved out from a big stone of the mountain, they were not ‘planted’ there as such
There are still from the same cave – the Cave Of Full Enlightenment made in the year 1200
A true exhibition of not just culture but humanism