You are the only ( I know of)english speaking youtuber exploring mountians in China by foot. It's absolutely facinating. you see so much more by walking and hiking. I would love to do it myself in China one day. Thank you for sharing. I am forwarding your channel to my friends
@@nickinchina2552V. nice vids btw. Really enjoying your travels. Thought the one about the destroyed palaces in Beijing (name alludes me) was especially good. Another place I visited on my trip. Don't think many westerners get to go there.
Just magnificent, i just can't imagine how they build it in those years, it's just mind blowing. Thank you for showing us this fascinating country Nick!
The face of the Leshan Buddha statue was badly damaged when the roofs covering it collapsed during the Yuan dynasty. Thus the Buddha face looks a bid strange after sculptors restored/savaged the remaining portion or rather round it off. There is a much smaller relief carving with the original look of this Buddha which was beautiful. It is located at the side on the hill. Near the end, I find it strange that you describe the temple as beautiful but giving a miss to video the interior is perplexing. Overall a bit disconnected but a great video of very good standard.
Let the the journey begin. Hey Nick, I'm visiting China long term for at least a year to study Martial arts. Do you have an advice regarding working in China. What is it you do for work? Apart from obviously learning Mandarin which I'm currently doing, are there any other things to consider when searching for weekend part time work? I guess the old English teaching route might be the only option really. I don't currently have a degree.
Hi! sounds great! Where will you go to study martial arts? I teach in a university in Xi'an. English teaching jobs are still probably the most common thing for foreigners in China but you would need a degree and an Engliah teaching qualification (tefl, celta etc)
@nickinchina2552 I'll be studying at Kunyu Mountain Martial Arts Academy. Shandong province. That's the plan anyway. Spreading my wings and doing the things I couldnt do in my early 20's. Apparently internships don't require a degree so that's promising. Thanks for the advice. Looking forward to your future videos and perhaps I'll bump into you someday. 😉
What sparked the inception of sculpting such colossal Buddha figures into the hillside? It's quite plausible to speculate that the inspiration stemmed from the Buddha statues adorning the hillsides of Afghanistan and India. Have you ever pondered the efforts it entailed to persuade emperors or affluent patrons to fund the creation of these immense Buddha sculptures? Substantial funds were necessary not just for compensating, nourishing, and lodging the workers but also for sustaining the hierarchical structure of the construction team over several years. Undoubtedly, there must have been accidents and casualties at the construction site as well.
The location of this Buddha is in a place called "Lingyun Mountain", the mountain is the intersection of three rivers, there are a lot of undercurrents and vortexes leading to fishing boats capsized, in Lingyun Mountain there is a monk called "Haitong" in practice, he saw the fishing boat capsized people died, the heart is very painful, he thinks there is a water monster in the water, need to build a big Buddha to suppress this monster. Beginning in 711 AD, Haitong monk began to ask Buddhist followers for donations and fundraising, raising a large amount of silver as the cost of building the Buddha, the local corrupt official knew that he had a lot of money, asked him for it, he angrily gouged out his own eyes and gave it to the official, and said: eyes can be given to you, the Buddha's property you can't move! After Haitong's death, the construction stopped, and the emperor heard of his deeds and asked local officials to use salt and cloth taxes to continue the construction of the Buddha statue, which continued until 803 AD, when the construction of Leshan Buddha was completed. Miraculously, after the Buddha's construction was completed, the whirlpool and undercurrent of the river disappeared. It was not until modern times, through the exploration of the river bottom, that people found that a large number of stones were thrown into the river when the Buddha statue was built, so that the river had a stable riverbed. People built temples and sculptures for Haitong monk on Lingyun Mountain in memory of this great monk.
It is absolutely amazing to stand at the feet of the Buddha and look up the size of it 😮😮😮 is something else but to see it properly you have to go on a boat on the river, otherwise due to it’s sheer size you can only see parts of it from the land. 👍👍👍
The most valuable Buddhist building in Sichuan is the Bao 'en Temple in Pingwu County（绵阳市平武县报恩寺）, a fully preserved Ming Dynasty official temple with well-preserved wooden buildings, sculptures and murals, which is well worth a visit
You are the only ( I know of)english speaking youtuber exploring mountians in China by foot. It's absolutely facinating. you see so much more by walking and hiking. I would love to do it myself in China one day. Thank you for sharing. I am forwarding your channel to my friends
Thank you very much indeed! Much much more on the way. Half way through my Beijing to Hangzhou journey at the moment...
Nick, you know how to appreciate Chinese history and culture.
Chinese history and culture superfan 😂😂
Checked out Big Buddha Man in spring 1987. It sure was much less visited and much quieter back then.
Must have been very different in 87! I first visited in 2006 and i remember it being quite quiet. It's a fabulous place.
Deserves more views
Yeh, i think so too 😂
Love the 1001 座塔 project! Great video
It's going well, over 60 now...which means many coming up in the next few vids!
I was there last month and really enjoyed it. I also went to Emei mountain, viewing amazing sea of cloud.
I went to Emei a long time back. Stunning place, and yeh the sea of clouds is wonderful. Great memories of that mountain!
Curiously I also visited China in 2006 and one of the places I went to was the Buddha at Leshan. You're making me wish I was travelling again. Thanks!
It has changed a bit since 2006, mainly just way more people. It is still a great place though!
@@nickinchina2552V. nice vids btw. Really enjoying your travels. Thought the one about the destroyed palaces in Beijing (name alludes me) was especially good. Another place I visited on my trip. Don't think many westerners get to go there.
love your video, very informative
Thanks so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it
Just thinking of you yesterday! About time!
Ahh, sorry! i did make a new resolution to not have a break in videos this year though! 2024 will be non-stop!
Nice videos as always, keep up the good work! Just started with Chinese studies at uni and we will see where that goes :D
Good luck with that! Glad you like the videos, it means a lot to me 😊
THANK YOU
If you upload this kind of videos with Chinese subtitles on Bilibili,I’m pretty sure you would at least get 100k followers👀
Maybe, maybe. Perhaps in the future 😎
受Nick老师UA-cam古建介绍，我开始这周去山西看木建筑。谢谢您的持续更新🫶🫶🫶
山西 is the best! Where will you visit??
@@nickinchina2552太原-平遥-代县-应县木塔，Nick老师，how about this route？It’s my first time visit.thx
Just magnificent, i just can't imagine how they build it in those years, it's just mind blowing. Thank you for showing us this fascinating country Nick!
90 years of chipping away at a mountain to make this! It is absolutely amazing!
The face of the Leshan Buddha statue was badly damaged when the roofs covering it collapsed during the Yuan dynasty. Thus the Buddha face looks a bid strange after sculptors restored/savaged the remaining portion or rather round it off. There is a much smaller relief carving with the original look of this Buddha which was beautiful. It is located at the side on the hill.
Near the end, I find it strange that you describe the temple as beautiful but giving a miss to video the interior is perplexing. Overall a bit disconnected but a great video of very good standard.
Let the the journey begin. Hey Nick, I'm visiting China long term for at least a year to study Martial arts. Do you have an advice regarding working in China. What is it you do for work?
Apart from obviously learning Mandarin which I'm currently doing, are there any other things to consider when searching for weekend part time work? I guess the old English teaching route might be the only option really. I don't currently have a degree.
Hi! sounds great! Where will you go to study martial arts?
I teach in a university in Xi'an. English teaching jobs are still probably the most common thing for foreigners in China but you would need a degree and an Engliah teaching qualification (tefl, celta etc)
@nickinchina2552 I'll be studying at Kunyu Mountain Martial Arts Academy. Shandong province. That's the plan anyway. Spreading my wings and doing the things I couldnt do in my early 20's. Apparently internships don't require a degree so that's promising. Thanks for the advice. Looking forward to your future videos and perhaps I'll bump into you someday. 😉
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Happy new year to you too, Cathy!
What sparked the inception of sculpting such colossal Buddha figures into the hillside? It's quite plausible to speculate that the inspiration stemmed from the Buddha statues adorning the hillsides of Afghanistan and India. Have you ever pondered the efforts it entailed to persuade emperors or affluent patrons to fund the creation of these immense Buddha sculptures? Substantial funds were necessary not just for compensating, nourishing, and lodging the workers but also for sustaining the hierarchical structure of the construction team over several years. Undoubtedly, there must have been accidents and casualties at the construction site as well.
This Big Buddha had all sorts of finding problems. It is such an immense undertaking.
The location of this Buddha is in a place called "Lingyun Mountain", the mountain is the intersection of three rivers, there are a lot of undercurrents and vortexes leading to fishing boats capsized, in Lingyun Mountain there is a monk called "Haitong" in practice, he saw the fishing boat capsized people died, the heart is very painful, he thinks there is a water monster in the water, need to build a big Buddha to suppress this monster.
Beginning in 711 AD, Haitong monk began to ask Buddhist followers for donations and fundraising, raising a large amount of silver as the cost of building the Buddha, the local corrupt official knew that he had a lot of money, asked him for it, he angrily gouged out his own eyes and gave it to the official, and said: eyes can be given to you, the Buddha's property you can't move!
After Haitong's death, the construction stopped, and the emperor heard of his deeds and asked local officials to use salt and cloth taxes to continue the construction of the Buddha statue, which continued until 803 AD, when the construction of Leshan Buddha was completed.
Miraculously, after the Buddha's construction was completed, the whirlpool and undercurrent of the river disappeared. It was not until modern times, through the exploration of the river bottom, that people found that a large number of stones were thrown into the river when the Buddha statue was built, so that the river had a stable riverbed.
People built temples and sculptures for Haitong monk on Lingyun Mountain in memory of this great monk.
It is absolutely amazing to stand at the feet of the Buddha and look up the size of it 😮😮😮 is something else but to see it properly you have to go on a boat on the river, otherwise due to it’s sheer size you can only see parts of it from the land. 👍👍👍
I did that last time i visited but this time the river was so misty you really couldn't see anything. An amazing place
The most valuable Buddhist building in Sichuan is the Bao 'en Temple in Pingwu County（绵阳市平武县报恩寺）, a fully preserved Ming Dynasty official temple with well-preserved wooden buildings, sculptures and murals, which is well worth a visit
read about it, but didn't make it there this time - it looks fantastic! Heading to the capital now...
Pagodas are amazing🤌
i agree completely! 😎
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