Jinding Golden Buddha is a bronze-cast gilded Buddha statue, 48 meters high and weighing 660 tons. It consists of a pedestal a
Jinding Golden Buddha is a bronze-cast gilded Buddha statue, 48 meters high and weighing 660 tons. It consists of a pedestal and ten statues of bodhisattvas. The golden statue is 48 meters high, symbolizing Amitabha's 48 wishes. Among them, the pedestal is 6 meters high, 27 meters long and 27 meters wide, and the ten vows of Bodhisattva Samantabhadra are engraved on all sides. The exterior is decorated with granite relief. The square Pu Xian statue is 42 meters high and weighs 350 tons. The whole golden statue is perfect in design and exquisite in craftsmanship. It can be called a masterpiece of copper casting giant plastic, which has high cultural value and ornamental aesthetic value. It is the crystallization of the wisdom of artists on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Emei Mountain is located in Emei County, southwest of Chengdu, Sichuan Province. It is one of the four famous Buddhist mountains in China. Because the mountain is winding and continuous, like a fairy's slender slice, it is beautiful and gorgeous, so it is named "Emei Mountain". Mount Emei is magnificent. Since ancient times, it has been called "Emei is the best in the world".
Jinding is the peak of Mount Emei, with an altitude of 3077 meters. Buddha's light is a magical optical phenomenon. Every morning or evening, if people stand in front of the snake rock, they will appear in the clouds in the opposite direction of the sun. Beyond the shadow, there is a huge colorful halo, much like the aperture on the Buddha's head in some ancient paintings, so it is called Buddha's light or treasure light, also called Emei treasure light.
In fact, this is sunlight passing through countless water droplets suspended in the air. Due to diffraction, the light source is usually sunlight from behind the observer. When passing through the two thin layers of cloud droplets before and after the array, the former layer of cloud droplets between them will split the incident sunlight, and the latter layer will reflect the separated colored light. The reflected light scatters or converges to the side of the sun. Anyone who welcomes the gathering light, that is, someone standing between the sun and the clouds, can see a slightly different ring-shaped light and shadow image, which is the Buddha's light.
As long as the light is strong, the radius of the cloud drops is small and the size is uniform, you can generally see several "Buddha lights" with different brightness, but the color arrangement order is the same, usually 4 circles. Because the light intensity of the outermost fourth halo is too weak, even if it appears, it is difficult for the human eye to distinguish it. It's not easy to see Buddha's light. Only at the right time in the morning or afternoon, when there is a dense cloud in front of people and strong sunshine behind them, can we see it.