in sichuan.hard to find a place more popular than this city and all thanks to the giant buddha statue, which is visited by millions of tourists not only from china but from all over the world, the giant buddha statue is best seen from the side of the water. it was placed in this place. it is not at all accidental. the fact is that the river could not have swept a very rough current in this place, ships crashed and sank. and so, in order to somehow rectify the situation, it was decided to put a statue of a teacher in this place. this idea came to the mind of a simple monk named khaitun in 713. khaitun, 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 th