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STATUES OF BHUUDA. 
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Buddha. The laroest of these consist of colossal statues in 
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bronze {BaibiiUii), representing Buddha in a sitting position, and 
themselves forming the screen to a temple with smaller images. 
A similar statue is also to be found at Kamakura, another at 
BUDDHIST TEMPLE AT KOBE. 
Tokio, a third at Kara near Kioto, and so on. Some have of 
late years been sold for the value of the metal; one has in this 
way been brought to London, and is now exhibited in the 
Kensington Museum. The metal of the statues consists of an 
alloy of copper with tin and a little gold, the last named 
