LAGAN, RUSSIA - SEPTEMBER 22, 2019: The unveiling ceremony for a gild painted statue of Buddha Maitreya, measuring 12 and a half metres in height, weighing 30 tonnes in the town of Lagan, Kalmykia, Russia; Kalmykia is a region in southern European Russia mostly inhabited by ethnic Kalmyks who are predominantly Buddhist. Sandzhi Ubushiyev/TASS (Photo by Sandzhi Ubushiyev\TASS via Getty Images)
