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'Bright Light Temple') in Orlando, Florida, United States is the largest Buddhist temple in Central Florida. The three-story, 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m 2 ), traditional Chinese - monastic style temple was completed in 2007 and cost approximately $5 million to construct.
The Fairy Cave (Chinese: 仙人洞), or Cave of the Immortals, [2] also known as Lushan Fairy Cave, [3] is a rock cave made of sand cliffs [4] anciently called "Buddha's Hand Rock", [5] located in Mount Lu, Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province. [6] It is a natural cave formed gradually by the continuous weathering of nature and the long-term washing ...
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The Avukana statue is a standing statue of the Buddha near Kekirawa in North Central Sri Lanka. The statue, which has a height of more than 14 m (46 ft), depicts the Buddha with a hand raised in reassurance, a variation of the Abhaya mudra. The Avukana statue is one of the best examples of a standing statue built in Sri Lanka.
Buddha Park, also known as Xieng Khuan (as well as other variations of the spelling), is a sculpture park 25 km southeast from Vientiane, Laos, in a meadow by the Mekong River. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Although it is not a temple ( wat ), it may be referred to as Wat Xieng Khuan ( Lao : ວັດຊຽງຄວນ; Thai : วัดเซียงควน ...
Old people, who can not climb, are carried on stretchers by porters to the Pagoda to offer prayers to Buddha. [3] [5] [14] The Full Moon day of Tabaung in March, is a special occasion for pilgrims who visit the shrine. On this day, the platform of the pagoda is lighted with ninety thousand candles as reverential offering to the Buddha.
To clarify: [7] a footprint of the Buddha is a concave image of his foot (or feet), supposed to have been left by him on earth to purposefully mark his passage over a particular spot. The images of the Buddha's feet are convex images which represent the actual soles of his feet, with all their characteristics.
Sacred Buddha Relics Chamber (Chinese: 佛陀舍利子展覽館; pinyin: Fótuó Shèlìzǐ Zhǎnlǎn Guǎn): This chamber is an extension of the Nagapuspa Buddhist Culture Museum where tiny pearl-like multi-colored relics purportedly of the Buddha are displayed alongside cognate artifacts such as reliquaries and stupas.