Siang Lin Chiao Yuan Buddhist Temple
Siang Lin Chiao Yuan Buddhist Temple
MALAYSIA, Malacca
The temple was founded in 1945 by the elder monk Jinming and was named in honor of his respected master, Siang Lin. The temple started out as a single-story timber building and the expansion of the temple was completed in 1992. It is a hybrid of traditional and modern architecture.
The temple is composed of two buildings, one in front of the other. Each building consists of three stories with a single-eave hip-and-gable roof and two sets of intermediate eaves. The Great Hero Hall is located on the first story of the front building and houses a seated statue of Sakyamuni Buddha in Burmese style. The second story retains original aspects of the shrine prior to expansion and contains a library. On the third story there is a sutra repository. On the first story of the rear building there are offices and a memorial hall.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Architecture M-S, page 1018.
Cite this article:
author = Hsingyun and Youheng and Johnson, Peter and Mankuang and Lancaster, Lewis,
booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Architecture M-S},
pages = 1018,
title = {{Siang Lin Chiao Yuan Buddhist Temple}},
volume = 3,
year = {2016}}