World's largest Buddha stat

							World's largest Buddha statue
From The Dhamma Encyclopedia

As of September 2008, sculptors have almost finished
work on world’s largest (reclining) Buddha statue
Wednesday in Yiyang County of East China’s Jiangxi
Province. The gigantic rock work, whose construction
started on May 1st,2002, measures 68-meter-high and
416-meter-long. It will be the biggest image of a human
being ever created, in the known history of mankind.

The reclining posture is the position the Buddha had
when passing away to parinibbana.