Phuoc Hung Temple: Main Hall
Phuoc Hung Temple
VIETNAM, Dong Thap, Sa Dec
The temple was built by the monk Minh Phuoc in 1838 and houses the Dong Thap School of Basic Buddhist Studies.
The main hall is the principal building of the temple. It has a distinctive double-eave roof decorated with auspicious creatures and lotuses. The building is 14 m wide and 19.5 m deep. A gilded clay statue of Amitabha Buddha is enshrined in the hall. The name of the temple in Chinese characters can be found on an elaborately sculpted horizontal inscribed board dated to 1882. It includes a carved Bodhi leaf in the center.
The temple houses a substantial collection of double-sided wooden Buddhist sutras engraved in Chinese characters.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Architecture M-S, page 822.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Phuoc Hung Temple." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Architecture M-S, vol. 3, 2016, pp. 822.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Peter Johnson, Mankuang and Lewis Lancaster. 2016. "Phuoc Hung Temple" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Architecture M-S, 3:822.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Johnson, P., Mankuang, & Lancaster, L. (2016). Phuoc Hung Temple. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Architecture M-S (Vol. 3, pp. 822).
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