Hue Nghiem Temple

VIETNAM, Ho Chi Minh City

The temple was built in 1962 by the monk Thien Hoa. The temple served as a training center for monastics between 1963 and 1985 and has had various names.
The principal buildings include the main hall, the bell tower, and the Avalokitesvara Pavilion. The two-story main hall has a double-eave hip-and-gable roof and is surrounded on four sides by a veranda. The hall contains statues of Sakyamuni Buddha, Manjusri and Samantabhadra Bodhisattvas, and other sculptures, most of which are carved from wood. The two-story bell tower has a hip-and-gable roof. The bell is located on the upper story, where there are middle eaves and a platform surrounded with balustrades. The Avalokitesvara Pavilion has a pyramidal roof and houses a statue of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva. In the temple grounds there is a 4.5 m high reinforced concrete statue of a seated Sakyamuni Buddha, which was constructed in the 1970s.