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Cheng Beng Buddhist Society, also the Vimalakirti Buddhist Centre (Chinese: 净名佛学社), is a Buddhist monastery in Singapore. The foundation was originally set up by Venerable Wen Ming Hu . The present premises are located at Geylang , Singapore.
The official English form of the name is "Hoi Tong Monastery", [1] a transcription of the Cantonese pronunciation of the Chinese translation of the Indian Buddhist monk Sāgaradhvaja [2] [3] [4] (Sanskrit: सागरध्वज, lit "Ocean [5] Banner" [6] or "Flagpole"), [7] who appears in the Flower Garland Sutra as a devout student of the Heart Sutra. [1]
A raised pathway, first going northwest to southeast from the old capital to the new capital's outer moat, and then turning to go east to west, connected directly to the east entrance of the temple. [8] Later in its history, Phnom Bakheng was converted into a Buddhist temple. A monumental Sitting Buddha, now lost, was created on its upper tier.
The Hương Temple (Vietnamese: Chùa Hương, Chữ Hán: 香寺) is a vast complex of Buddhist temples and shrines built into the limestone Hương Tích mountains. It is the site of a religious festival which draws large numbers of pilgrims from across Vietnam . [ 1 ]
Etc., where the hall and the Buddhist temple are linked together, collectively referred to as the "Dadian", the main hall is the only lama temple with the combination of Chinese and Tibetan styles in the entire temple. There is a double-decked three-story front hall, a guard hall and a Buddhist temple. There is a 2.55-meter-high silver Buddha ...
The Grand Temple of Mount Heng, or Grand Temple of South Mountain (Chinese: 南岳大庙; pinyin: Nányuè Dàmiào) is located at the foot of Mount Heng, and on the north of ancient town of Mount Heng in Hengshan County of Hunan, China. It is the largest temple on Mount Heng. It is a major component of Mount Heng National Key Tourist Resort ...
Rongbuk Monastery (Tibetan: རྫ་རོང་ཕུ་དགོན་, Wylie: rdza rong phu dgon; other spellings include Rongpu, Rongphu, Rongphuk and Rong sbug (simplified Chinese: 绒布寺; traditional Chinese: 絨布寺; pinyin: Róngbù Sì)), also known as Dzarongpu [1] or Dzarong [citation needed], is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Nyingma sect in Basum Township, [2] Dingri ...
The Cheng Hoon Teng Temple (Chinese: 青云亭; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chheng-hûn-tîng) (also called as the Temple of Green Cloud) [1] is a Chinese temple practising the Three Doctrinal Systems of Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism located at No. 25 Jalan Tokong, Malacca City, Malaysia. It is the oldest functioning temple in the country. [2]