Chee Wan San Temple: Great Compassion Hall
Chee Wan San Temple: Great Hero Hall (interior)
Chee Wan San Temple
MALAYSIA, Kuala Lumpur
Chee Wan San means Compassionate Cloud Mountain. It was founded in 1927 by the monk Shengkai from China. It has undergone expansions since its establishment.
The temple occupies an area of 10.8 ha. The main buildings are the Great Hero Hall and Great Compassion Hall. The two-story Great Hero Hall has a single-eave hip-and-gable roof. It consists of the chanting hall on the upper floor and the main hall below. The hall houses statues of Sakyamuni Buddha, Avalokitesvara, and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattvas. A smaller building in front of the hall contains Maitreya Buddha. The Great Compassion Hall has a double-eave hip-and-gable roof and is enshrined with a 9 m high golden Thousand-Armed, Thousand-Eyed Avalokitesvara.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Architecture A-F, page 126.
Cite this article:
author = Hsingyun and Youheng and Johnson, Peter and Mankuang and Lancaster, Lewis,
booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Architecture A-F},
pages = 126,
title = {{Chee Wan San Temple}},
volume = 1,
year = {2016}}