At first, the giant Buddha was not built in Nara, but planned to be built in Jiahe Temple (now Jiahe City, Shiga County) near Xiangzi Music Palace. However, due to frequent accidents such as fires around Zixiangle Palace, the plan was stopped and changed to Pingchengjing (now Nara). The technicians involved in the construction include Master Gao, Master Gao, and the real master Ma Lu. These people also attended the Buddha's opening ceremony, together with the emperor, Empress Dowager Guangming, Kejsarinnan Koken and other dignitaries who have already entered Zen, reaching as many as ten thousand people. The eye-opening teacher is a bodhisattva, a monk from India.
After that, the Giant Buddha and the Giant Buddha Hall were burned twice in 4 years (1 180, which was burned in Du Nan) and 10 years (1567, the Battle of the Great Buddha Hall in Dongda Temple, also known as the Battle of Duowenshan), which was revived with the help of the powerful people at that time.
The current giant Buddha statue is about 14.7m in height and 70m in base circumference. The head was in the Edo period, and most parts of the body were restored in the Kamakura period. However, the pedestal, right abdomen, sleeves and legs that began to droop at the wrist, and some of them were preserved in the Tian Ping period. The lotus on the pedestal is carved with the world represented by Hua Yan Jing, which is an important historical legacy left by the Heian period. In the thirty-third year of Showa (1953), on February 8th, the giant Buddha and the bronze statue of 1 Lushenafo (placed in Jintang) were designated as Japanese national treasures.
The front (east-west) width of the existing Great Buddha Hall is 57.5 meters, the longitudinal length is 50.5 meters and the height is 49. 1 meter. The height and vertical length are basically the same as when it was created, but the width is reduced by nearly one third compared with about 86 meters when it was created. Although the Giant Buddha Hall has been introduced as "the largest wooden structure building in the world" for many times, there are actually many buildings larger than the Giant Buddha Hall in modern architecture after the 20th century. Perhaps it is better to call it "the largest wooden shaft group building in the world".