(VTC News) - Storing and displaying 500 rare and precious antiques dating from the VII-VIII centuries, the first Buddhist Culture Museum in Vietnam is a tourist destination for many tourists.
(VTC News) - Storing and displaying 500 rare and precious antiques dating from the VII-VIII centuries, the first Buddhist Culture Museum in Vietnam is a tourist destination for many tourists.
The first Buddhist museum in Vietnam to store and display more than 500 antiques.
Located on the 2nd floor of the main hall of Quan The Am Pagoda (Ngu Hanh Son District, Da Nang), the first Buddhist Culture Museum in Vietnam is a place to store valuable antiques of Buddhist culture, serving the need to learn about Buddhist culture of monks, nuns, friends and researchers. This is also a spiritual destination, a meaningful place to visit for tourists in the journey to discover the Marble Mountains Special Scenic Area.
Officially open to visitors since 2016, the Museum of Buddhist Culture currently displays more than 500 antiques about Buddhism. Antiquities reflecting Buddhist art in Vietnam and some Asian countries have been painstakingly collected by the abbots of Quan The Am Pagoda over the past 20 years. Many artifacts date back to the last few decades, but there are also artifacts dating back to the VII and VIII centuries.
Antiquities such as Buddha statues, woodblocks of Buddhist scriptures, worshiping objects, musical instruments, etc. dating from the VII-VIII centuries to the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries are displayed at the museum.
The museum also preserves many sets of rare and precious Buddha statues with many materials such as wood, jade, bronze, iron, stone ... In which, many statues are assessed by experts as national treasures and valuable. special value in terms of art and visual value. Prominent as the white jade statue "Quan The Am sent to death" carved the image of the Lady Buddha holding a small child in her arms, which is said to have been found in the royal palace of the Nguyen Dynasty. Next to it is a group of 8 statues of "Buddha Tantra", "Avalokitesvara" statue, "Buddha Maitreya".
Most Venerable Thich Hue Vinh, Abbot of Quan The Am Pagoda, said that the artifacts and antiquities displayed and introduced at the Museum of Buddhist Culture have all gone through a process of scientific evaluation and meticulous selection of teachers. professors, PhDs, leading experts. All artifacts and antiques have great spiritual and material value.
According to researchers, in addition to the value of art, antiques and artifacts at the Museum of Buddhist Culture contain many cultural and historical values that need to be preserved, promoted as well as continued to be researched and explored. .
In addition to the value of ancient works of art, the artifacts displayed at the museum are also the crystallization of the quintessence of Buddhist cultural heritage.
Besides, the museum is also keeping many artifacts such as ancient urns, worshiping objects... dating from the 7th century, to the end of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Coming to the Museum of Buddhist Culture is coming to a unique cultural and spiritual space, to clearly feel the companionship of Buddhism throughout the nation's history. Admiring, enjoying and learning about antiques also reminds each person of the good morals of life and jointly preserves the cultural and historical values of the nation.
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: 27/08/2023
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