City of Greater Bendigo councillors tried their hand as property inspectors when they toured the site of Buddhist monument yesterday.
The civic leaders were on a guided tour of The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion at Myers Flat. Contractors have built the frame for six levels of the monument, which will ultimately be 50 metres wide and almost 50 metres high.
A stupa is the most sacred building in Buddhism and the Myers Flat offering will be the largest in the Western world once finished. Project directors expect it will take three to four years to construct and fit out the bottom half of the stupa, which is about 20 metres high at present.
Cr Alex Sandner said the stupa would boost Bendigo tourism.
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