Known as Dharma Chakra Buddha, the Teaching Buddha statue is in a sitting or standing position. The most popular is the sitting pose since this is the position the Buddha assumed when teaching.

Adjacent to it is a 433-foot standing Buddha, one of the largest in the world. The Burmese reclining Buddha may soon be surpassed in size by a new construction in China.

Steven Sidebotham of the University of Delaware stated that the statue was about 28 inches tall and showed Buddha standing up, holding parts of his robes in his left hand, with a halo that ...