Reported By: | Edited By: DNA Web Group |Supply: ANI |Updated: Mar 08, 2022, 11: 56 PM IST
India`s ideal reclining statue of Lord Buddha is being constructed in Bodh Gaya. Built by Buddha World Welfare Mission, the statue will be 100 feet prolonged and 30 feet high.
Lord Buddha is in the sleeping posture in the statue. The construction of the mammoth statue started in the year 2019. It is being made with fiberglass and constructed by sculptors from Kolkata.
Talking to ANI, Bhante Aryapal Bhikshu, founder secretary of Buddha World Welfare Mission, said, “The idol of Lord Buddha is in Mahaparinirvana Mudra which has immense significance in Buddhism. Earlier than Mahaparinirvana, Lord Buddha preached to his disciples in this posture. Bodh Gaya is the blueprint of enlightenment of Lord Buddha, so this idol is being constructed right here.”
He said the idol of this posture of Lord Buddha is in Uttar Pradesh`s Kushinagar where he attained his Mahaparinirvana. He further informed that the mammoth statue of Lord Buddha will be birth for devotees from February 2023.
Bodh Gaya is a foremost pilgrimage centre for Buddhism and is visited by devotees from in all places in the field.
