this idea came to the mind of a simple monk named khaitun in 713.un, so imbued with a grandiose task, so that in the name of its fulfillment he slept in a small cave on the shore for the sake of its fulfillment and every day , year after year, he cut stones in the rock, over time , other monks joined him, but to see his creation in its finished form haitun never succeeded. he died when the completion of the project was still very far away. ishik historian. he says that in total on the construction of this statue. buddha was spent about 90 years statue height 71 m is one of the largest statues in the world. shoulder width 28 m, and the height of the head is almost 15 m. this buddha is grandiose and chic tells that for hundreds of years the buddha from lishan was covered with a multi-storey wooden structure. which protected him from the weather. however, it burned down during a fire in the 15th century, since then no one has managed to restore it , perhaps fortunately, because this is how the figure is better seen, in order to go down to the foot of t