Nam Thien Nhat Tru Temple: One-Pillar Pagoda
Nam Thien Nhat Tru Temple
VIETNAM, Ho Chi Minh City
Nam Thien Nhat Tru means Southern Single Pillar. The temple was founded by monk Tri Dung in 1959 and was completed in 1977.
The principal buildings of the temple include the temple gate, One-Pillar Pagoda, and the main hall. The temple gate is three bays wide and has wooden doors in the center with an arched door on each side. A horizontal inscribed board with the name of the temple hangs above the central doors.
The One-Pillar Pagoda resembles that in Dien Huu Temple in Hanoi. Built atop a single pillar, it is a single-story structure with a hip-and-gable roof and eaves that curve up at the corners. The main hall has a hip-and-gable roof. It houses Buddha statues, altars, reliefs, and other works of art by Ba Nham. In the temple’s collection of artifacts there is a palm leaf sutra manuscript, which was a gift from the Prime Minister of India in 1964.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Architecture M-S, page 775.
Cite this article:
author = Hsingyun and Youheng and Johnson, Peter and Mankuang and Lancaster, Lewis,
booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Architecture M-S},
pages = 775,
title = {{Nam Thien Nhat Tru Temple}},
volume = 3,
year = {2016}}