Many thanks to Sharon Saw, who posted the following comment to my earlier post on the Leshan Buddha (“Where is the largest stone carved Buddha in the world?”). Take a look, the footage is great and gives you an idea of how magnificent this millennium-old Chinese homage to Maitreya Buddha truly is:

yeah.. there’s a cool youtube video of HE Tsem Tulku Rinpoche at Leshan…there are 2 parts, here’s part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7DczsOQdz4

and part 2 is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORb_T-aijP0