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Last week, Archaeology News Network reported that this is a Buddha statue and that a resident in the apartment complex with the surname Yang says that there was a temple near the statue years ago and “I heard the Buddha statue was built nearly a thousand year ago.”
A 60-year-old resident has also stated that the statue has been known about for some time before this re-discovery. That person said, “The statue was here when I was young. There was a head on it but was later damaged.” When the Archaeology News Network made their report on the statue they concluded by saying that “The local authority of cultural relics has launched an investigation.”