Installation of Buddha Statue - Monument of Engineering & Culture
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
P. Y. Manjure
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Symposium: Synergy of Culture and Civil Engineering – History and Challenges, Wrocław, Poland, 7-9 October 2020 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Symposium Wroclaw 2020 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 577-584 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2020 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/wroclaw.2020.0577 | ||||
| Abstract: |
The magnificent statue of Lord Buddha installed on Gibraltar Rock in Hussain Sagar Lake in Hyderabad City of India is an engineering marvel. It attracts not only attention of international tourists, but has become great symbol of Buddhism culture and faith born in India. The project involving stages of sculpting the statue, its transportation to the city, then to the pedestal in the lake had to face challenging situations which are brought out in the paper. While transporting it in the lake, there was mishap drowning the statue to the lake bed. Salvaging the statue and its subsequent erection on the pedestal added to the complexity of engineering operations and are covered in the article. |
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| Keywords: |
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