Where East Meets West, There is Now China

By the Open Air Buddha is a group of Buddhist replicas from the Luoyang Longmen Grottoes in Cen-tral China's Henan province.The better part of the 100,000 Buddh-ist statues at the Longmen Grot-toes were carved during the Tang Dynasty(618-907),and the most re-presentative of these pieces is the Losona Buddha,which is reproduced in the Florida park to a 1:3 scale.