The Trail to Buddha's Mirror
“Buddha just sat there and gazed serenely across the water and ignored Neal entirely. Buddha was 231 feet tall and made of stone. Buddha was carved from a red rock cliff that rose straight up from the broad Min River.Neal was standing on Buddha’s big toe. So were Wu, Peng, and a couple of PLA soldiers. There was plenty of room.“Pretty big Buddha,” Neal said stupidly.“It is the biggest sitting Buddha in the world,” Wu said.“A relic of the superstitious past,” Peng said.“Where’s Mao’s statue?” Nea...l asked. “Upriver? Next to the Gang of Four montage?”Neal was back on his Piss Off Peng Program. Peng had whipped him out of Dwaizhou like they were trying to stiff the bill. They had driven about an hour before coming to the industrial town of Leshan, a squat gray battlement on the green floodplain, and boarded a ferryboat across the river. The ferry had dropped them off at Buddha’s right foot.“There are no statues to the Gang of Four,” Peng said. “They betrayed Chairman Mao.”“Yeah, by carrying out his orders.”Neal turned around to look at the river, which was dotted with fishing boats.MoreLess
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