News Forum - Buddha statue in Cambodia will be world’s 3rd tallest

[Thaiger]

The owner of the hotel group in Cambodia taking on a big challenge. A big, tall challenge. The owner of the Sokha Hotel Group in Cambodia has pledged to build one of the world’s tallest Buddha statues. His scheme would see the construction of a 108-metre tall Buddha on Bokor Mountain. While news coverage in the Phnom Penh Post, and Nation Thailand suggested it would be the world’s tallest, there are two taller Buddha statues currently in existence. The Laykyun Sekkya in Myanmar stands at 115.8 metres, while the Spring Temple Buddha in China is 128 metres tall, making it […]

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[Ramanathan.P]

Even though is good to have the 3rd largest Buddha Statue in the world, It is really heart broken to see those architectural sites where all the faces of the Hindu deities are damaged during the Khmer times. Hope the government do something to revive the root of civilization in the country 

[HiuMak]

17 hours ago, Thaiger said:

The owner of the hotel group in Cambodia taking on a big challenge. A big, tall challenge. The owner of the Sokha Hotel Group in Cambodia has pledged to build one of the world’s tallest Buddha statues. His scheme would see the construction of a 108-metre tall Buddha on Bokor Mountain. While news coverage in the Phnom Penh Post, and Nation Thailand suggested it would be the world’s tallest, there are two taller Buddha statues currently in existence.

So his dream will be destroyed when he knows that it is not the world's tallest?