Thursday, January 10, 2008

Heavenly Kings

Inside Tianning Chansi (Tianning Temple). This is The Hall of Heavenly Kings. Each King stands at approximately 18-20 metres tall. Trust me, the pictures most certainly do not do justice to the absolute beauty and perfection of each statue. They were built in the Qing Dynasty, unfortunately I can't get more specific dates than that. So basically they were built anywhere from 1644-1911AD.




4 comments:

Anonymous said...

They're kinda freaky looking, almost ghoulish cartoon characters.

Anonymous said...

The first one kinda reminds me of mom when she's mad at me for doing something stupid.

Anonymous said...

So then "Mom" must always look like that!

Anonymous said...

i have to do a stupid report. its a travel brochure and im gathering like temples and statues and its due thursday hahahahahahaha