Phuoc Hue Temple

AUSTRALIA, New South Wales, Sydney

Phuoc Hue means Blessings and Wisdom. The temple was founded by the monk Phuoc Hue in 1990. The temple occupies 8,138 sq m and consists of the temple gate, main hall, Patriarch Hall, pagoda, Wisdom Bell Tower, and the Amitabha Buddha Triad Hall. The temple gate has white walls and green roof tiles, and features a Dharma wheel and lotus flowers. The main hall has a single-eave hip-and-gable roof. In front of the portico, there are steps decorated with dragons on the sides. The Dharma protectors, Skanda Bodhisattva and Sangharama Bodhisattva, stand on each side of the doorway. The hall houses a seated Sakyamuni Buddha statue. There is a statue of Sakyamuni Buddha under a concrete Bodhi tree within the temple grounds. He is sitting with his hands in the dhyani mudra. The Patriarch Hall is located behind the main hall. The seven-story pagoda is 26.2 m high and houses relics of the Buddha.