Buu Son Tu, a nearly 200-year-old temple in Soc Trang, stands out as Vietnam’s only pagoda where nearly 2,000 statues and ...
The body, or main part, of the pagoda, often used to enshrine a statue of Buddha, held to various styles of traditional Chinese architecture, unless the pagoda had a domed steeple. The base ...
construction of the pagoda began between 1403 and 1424 and was completed in 1474 during the Ming Dynasty. The purpose of building the pagodas was to house five gold statues of Buddha presented to ...
It's morning in Battersea Park in London, and I'm standing near the river, next to the Peace Pagoda. Every day, watched by four gilded Buddha statues, a Japanese Buddhist monk drums his way over ...
The redesign removed fencing surrounding the pagoda and added a path from the main gate to a terrace with views of the bronze Buddha statue and the Hagiwara Gate. Another path was added through ...
Le Thu Hien, a resident of Thu Duc City, shared her annual practice of visiting Van Phat Pagoda on this special day: "I visit ...