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Shakyamuni Buddha Monument

Shakyamuni Buddha Monument

Located on Tran Phu Street, the road curves around Lon Mountain, up to Ben Da and Ben Dinh. The Shakyamuni Buddha Monument is associated with the beauty of Ben Da and the natural landscape northeast of Big Mountain. If Ben Da is a busy and bustling fishing port, then Shakyamuni Buddha Dai is a quiet place, imbued with the magic of paradise. The Shakyamuni Buddha Dai mountain area was previously lush and uninhabited. Around 1957, Mr. Le Quang Vinh, a civil servant during the French colonial period, reluctantly came here to build a temple to practice, called Thien Lam Tu. In 1962, the Buddhist Church realized that Thien Lam Tu was located in a location with beautiful natural scenery, a prime area gathering sacred energy, and convenient transportation for monks and Buddhists from all over. pilgrimage so he created a project to build a large-scale Thien Lam Tu into Shakyamuni Buddha Dai. After more than 19 months of construction, on February 15, the year of the Cat (1963), Shakyamuni Buddha Dai was inaugurated with the architectural works as today. Shakyamuni Buddha Dai is a sculptural architectural complex created according to the life story of Buddha Shakyamuni associated with a harmonious and lively natural landscape, creating a beautiful scenic area with many cultural values. religious history, is one of the most popular tourist attractions of Vung Tau. Entering Shakyamuni Buddha Dai, visitors pass through three gates, on top of which is a wheel of Buddhist morality called Dharma wheel with eight spokes symbolizing the Middle Way. The outer ring has four knobs symbolizing the Four Noble Truths. On the four pillars of the three-door entrance are four lotus buds symbolizing the purity, purity, and nobility of Buddhism. The entire Shakyamuni Buddha Temple campus is shown on the mountainside like a half moon, divided into three levels according to a tower that gradually rises from the bottom up. The stupa that visitors first encounter, after climbing the first level, is a place to remember and commemorate the person who built Thien Lam Tu: Monk Giac Phap, a mandarin of Le Quang Vinh. The path up to the second step follows a small arc, on the left is a majestic cliff. On the right, you can see all the way to Nua Mountain - Long Son and in the distance is the Oil and Gas port with high cranes connecting with streets, houses and fishing villages of Ben Dinh and Ben Da right at the foot of the mountain. Shakyamuni Buddha Dai is covered with the green of many towering trees. The sea breeze whispers. Going to the end of the arc, visitors reach a height of 25m, the space spreads out in front of them. This is an area of ​​sculptures built based on the life stories of Shakyamuni Buddha, from his birth to his Nirvana. The Shakyamuni stupa here enshrines 13 Buddha relics, contained in a gold box. This is a great joy for Vietnamese Buddhists in general and Vung Tau Buddhists in particular. The Xa Loi jade stupa at Shakyamuni Buddha Dai is 17m high, rising in the middle of a ceremony yard of about 300m2, with lotus buds on top. The entrance to the stupa is decorated with a dragon image, flanked by a pair of lions on both sides symbolizing the Great Hero - Great Power. At the foot of the tower there is an altar for worship, engraved on it: Namo Bo Master Shakyamuni Buddha, (Wholehearted respect for Buddha Shakyamuni). Below the four sides of the base of the octagonal stupa are four large peaks, inside which are four handfuls of sacred soil brought here from the place where he was born), where he attained enlightenment), (where he preached) and (where he entered Nirvana) here. . Sakyamuni Buddha Dai is a group of architectural and sculptural structures with the intention of depicting the main events in the Buddha's life. Source: Buddhist Church of Ba Ria - Vung Tau province

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