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A 72 foot Quan Am stands over a pond in Sugar Land
2005
Sugar Land, Texas
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Andy Truong · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The Vietnamese Buddhist Center commissioned sculptor Mai Chi Kim for a cast concrete figure of the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara in female form, standing on a lotus and facing a pond crossed by a red bridge. Counting the base it reaches 72 feet, which puts it among the tallest statues in the United States and for a time the largest Buddhist statue in the Western hemisphere. The temple had already bought several smaller pieces from her before commissioning this one.
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