Contains over 200 Hindu and Buddhist statues. Socialist government operates Buddha Park as a public park.
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Buddha Park VR Laos
Deua, Thanon Tha, Vientiane, Laos
The park was started in 1958 by Luang Pu (Venerable Grandfather) Bunleua Sulilat. Luang Pu Bunleua Sulilat was a priest-shaman who integrated Hinduism and Buddhism.
Another sculpture, an enormous 40-metre-long (130 ft) reclining Buddha, is also a park attraction.
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His unique perspective was influenced by a Hindu rishi under whom he studied in Vietnam. After the revolution in 1975, anxious about the repercussions of the rule of Pathet Lao, he fled from Laos to Thailand where he built another sculpture park, Sala Keoku in Nong Khai.
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Both parks are located right next to the Thai-Lao border (Mekong river), only a few kilometres apart from each other, and the tallest structures of the Buddha Park can actually be seen from the Thai side of Mekong.
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There are numerous sculptures of Buddha, characters of Buddhist beliefs like Avalokiteśvara, and characters of Hindu lore, including Shiva, Vishnu, and Arjuna.
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These sculptures were presumably cast by unskilled workers under the supervision of Luang Pu Bunleua Sulilat.
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Buddha Park is an open-air sculpture park located about 25 kilometers (15 miles) outside of Vientiane on the river Mekong. It’s known by locals as Xieng Khuan which means Spirit City, and it’s the quirky setting of over 200 sculptures of various shapes and sizes depicting figures from Buddhist and Hindu traditions and lore.
