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Saturday, October 8, 2011

Buddhagaya Watugong | Semarang Cultures

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Buddhagaya Watugong monastery is located 45 minutes from downtown Semarang. This monastery has many buildings and are in a large area. One of the most famous icons in this monastery is Avalokitesvara Pagoda (Metta Karuna), in which there are a large Buddha statue, the pagoda is not just that there are stairs to get to the top of the pagoda. Next to this there are reliefs of Buddhist pagoda was asleep and stay ahead of the right hand there are plans to build a bronze statue of Buddha 36 meters tall, but since its inauguration on July 14, 2008, we did not see any signs of development, according to the info that the construction was delayed because the Government has not Semarang give permission for the construction of this bronze buddha statue, the city government may be able to immediately give his permission.

Once down the location where the