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Joe Steinbring

Wuxi

A tiered bronze censer on a paved terrace beside red-roofed incense pavilions.
The incense terrace at Lingshan, below the Grand Buddha.2018 · Photograph by Joe Steinbring
Static offline map showing Wuxi in China with a location pin.

Wuxi was the late afternoon of November 6, 2018, and all of it was Lingshan: a bronze Buddha 88 meters tall, counting the lotus it stands on, at the top of a long flight of steps, an incense terrace below it looking out over the hills, and the Nine Dragons Bathing Buddha, a bronze lotus in a fountain that opens to show the infant Buddha inside. We stayed in Wuxi that night, and the next morning, the tour stopped on the shore of Lake Tai, in the rain, before we drove on to Hangzhou.

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  • A curving bronze railing on a terrace above wooded hills, with a gold spire beyond.

    The hills west of Wuxi, from the Buddha’s terrace.

    2018 · Photograph by Joe Steinbring

  • A giant bronze lotus opening in a fountain to show a gilded standing figure inside.

    The Nine Dragons Bathing Buddha, its lotus open.

    2018 · Photograph by Joe Steinbring

  • A huge bronze standing Buddha on a lotus at the top of a long flight of stone steps.

    The Lingshan Grand Buddha, from the bottom of the steps.

    2018 · Photograph by Joe Steinbring

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