Buu Quang Temple: Main Gate
Buu Quang Temple: Main Hall
Buu Quang Temple
VIETNAM, Ho Chi Minh City
Buu Quang stands for Treasure Light. It was built in 1939 and was the first Vietnamese Theravada temple.
The principal buildings include the main gate and the main hall. The main gate is three bays wide with a Dharma wheel at the very top. The columns are decorated with a couplet, while the lintel has the temple’s name in Vietnamese. The main hall is a single-story building. At one end of the main roof there is a small pyramidal roof, on which there is a distinctive bell-shaped stupa. Within the hall there is a seated statue of the Sakyamuni Buddha located in a niche that has a stupa above it. The ceiling above the niche is adorned with numerous small Dharma wheels.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Architecture A-F, page 116.
Cite this article:
author = Hsingyun and Youheng and Johnson, Peter and Mankuang and Lancaster, Lewis,
booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Architecture A-F},
pages = 116,
title = {{Buu Quang Temple}},
volume = 1,
year = {2016}}