Ming Dynasty Buddha Statue Discovered in East China

The well-preserved statue was found in a reservoir in the province's Fuzhou City. A lower water level recently revealed a Buddha head and the top of an archway which was visible just above the water surface. 


"The exposed Buddha head belongs to Shakyamuni (the Gautama Buddha), who sits on a lotus flower. As we can see, the Buddha statue is well preserved. We also discovered two slants of temple roofs on the cliff face. That means there must have been temple constructions here in the early Ming Dynasty," said Xu Changqing, director of Jiangxi Provincial Institute of Archeology.