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World’s Largest Jade Buddha to be Created

One of the successful entrepreneurs in Vietnam plans to create the world’s largest jade Buddha. Dao Trong Cuong, the owner of a Vietnamese gem mine, purchased the 35-ton stone in Myanmar (Burma) last year for $2 million. He has a team of 50 artists and sculptors who will create the Buddha which is expected to weigh nearly 20 tons when completed. “We hope to get it into the Guinness Book of World Records,” Cuong told a crowd of nearly 2,000 people during a ceremony unveiling the stone, which is 10 feet tall, 6.5 feet wide, and 6.5 feet deep. He says it will take two years to complete the statue.

The Guinness Book Web site shows no entries for the world’s largest jade Buddha. But according to Vietnamese media reports, the world’s biggest existing jade Buddha weighs 4 tons and stands 9 feet tall and toured Buddhist temples in Vietnam and Australia last year. Cuong became wealthy as a result of Vietnam’s late 1980s gemstone rush. He owns a studio that makes artworks out of crushed gemstones, such as rubies and emeralds. He has made portraits of Vietnam’s revolutionary hero Ho Chi Minh, former President George W. Bush and Bill Gates.

Elyse Zorn Karlin

Association for the Study of Jewelry and Related Arts (ASJRA)

www.jewelryandtherelatedarts.com

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