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Lwin: I see Asia’s largest sleeping Buddha in Gansu

“During my visit, I got to know the temple houses the largest sleeping Buddha in Asia, and it’s a royal temple in ancient China,” said Dr. Htike Lwin Ko from Myanmar. Lwin said this in his recent reporting tour to Northwest China's Gansu province, where the Zhangye Giant Buddha Temple is located. Zhangye used to be an important commercial hub along the ancient Silk Road and a political, economic, cultural and diplomati…