Naked Buddha sculptures too cheeky for China Two massive sculptures of naked Buddhas scaling a building in China have been taken down after a social media stir. Picture: Chinanews.com Source: Supplied THESE naked Buddhas were too cheeky for China. Two massive sculptures of the Buddhist sage clambering over a hot pot restaurant in the Jinan city shopping district were taken down by local authorities who deemed them a public offense. One of the voluptuous statues was snapped climbing the wall, with its bottom facing the street, while another was shown waiting on top of the wall, its hands clasped like in a prayer. It's not known who designed the sculptures, or why. South China Morning Post reports a Sina Weibo user posted a photo of the Buddhas on Sunday, which went viral on social media. They were taken down the next day. The revealing statues left some Zen Buddhist practitioners deeply offended. I burst into tears when I saw naked Buddhas climbing over the wall! How come a nation with a thousand-year history has so little respect for its own culture?" a practitioner named Miaoming from the Beihai Zen Monastery in Qinghai province wrote on his microblog. The Buddha statues were erected on the wall of a hot pot restaurant in a busy shopping street. Picture: Chinanews.com Others simply saw humour in the photos, with netizens nicknaming the installation "Buddha Jumps Over the Wall," the name of a luxury dish which contains nearly all the expensive ingredients in Chinese cooking. Read more at South China Morning Post.