Reproduced from Bitter Winter: A magazine on religious liberty and human rights in china
Another Chinese cultural icon is nothing but rubble after government officials in Pingshan County, under the jurisdiction of Shijiazhuang City in northern Hebei Province, detonated and destroyed a standing Guanyin statue, which was carved out of a cliff and measured about 190 feet (57.9 meters) high on Feb. 2.This Guanyin statue, known as the “Dripping-Water Guanyin,” was the tallest standing Guanyin statue carved from a cliff in the world.
