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If you travel to Ca Mau, you cannot miss a spiritual tourist destination located in Ward 1, the center of Ca Mau city, Monivongsa Bopharam. A Southern Khmer temple with the typical architecture of Nam Tong Buddhism and is the largest and most beautiful temple in the city. Visiting the temple you will own yourself the images of the illusion that seemed to be in the country of the Golden Temple or Cambodia. Monivonsa Bopharam Pagoda, identified in Pali - Sanskrit, and gained the meaning from the Buddhist scriptures, translated into Vietnamese to understand Lien Hoa Tu - Lien Hoa Pagoda. Monivongsa Bopharam Pagoda was built in 1964 by Venerable Thach Ken who called on the Sangha of Buddhists. Monivongsa Bopharam Pagoda has an area of about 230m2, including the main palace, Sala, the houses of the monks, the tower to the core, the church, the lotus pond ... red and bright yellow are two main colors in the entire temple architecture. The two colors symbolize luck and blessings. With the soaring dome, each corner of the column has the image of the fairy standing in the dome. The embossed images appear alternately and throughout each array of architecture. The main gate of the temple turned to the east. Above is the picture of 3 towers symbolizing the Three Realms or the Three Jewels, decorated with many sophisticated patterns. The 100 meter gate is a temple campus with surrounding trees. A Khmer temple often has a main gate and many extra gates showing the wide ideology to welcome the footsteps and visitors. This is also the common feature of the Southern Khmer temples. When entering the temple, the most impressive is the "giant" Buddha image across the temple yard showing some majesty and superficiality of the temple. The lying position of the Buddha is unique designed, the right hand is gentle, the face is elegant, exuding the leisurely leisurely. The pagoda campus is large, there are many trees, lotus ponds ... very poetic and quiet. Especially impressing guests is the scene of hundreds of pigeons hovering, parked on the curved roofs makes the temple's space more closer. At this, you seem to be pouring out all the sad things of life that feel unusually peaceful. The main hall is 32 m high, located in the center of the campus, the facade turned to the east, with steps from the ground leading to the 1.5 m high main hall. Outside the main hall has the surrounding corridor. Inside are two tall rows of columns to support the roof of the pagoda on top of the pagoda, creating a soaring space, and then forming a pointed peak symbolizing the Buddhist mountain of the Buddha. Sala (Phuoc Xa) is the home of the monk and the Khmer Buddhists. In Sala, there is an altar of Buddha and seats, where believers discuss, prepare before going to the main hall. On the wall and Sala ceiling are also decorated with sophisticated motifs and frescoes. The pagoda has a cremated area with a simple architectural house, located away from the center of the pagoda. The tower to be built in the temple campus, around the main hall is a very sacred place to worship the collective remains. Another impressive project in the temple is the statue of the Buddha's life from birth to adulthood, enlightenment of the life of human being, old, sick, and death. After the Buddha's ceremony, visitors can walk in the temple campus with many trees, lotus ponds ... watching the calm scenery or playing with hundreds of gentle and comfortable pigeons for them to eat. Every year on the Buddhist bath holidays on August 30 and the 1st of the first day of the lunar calendar or the Khmer festival occasions such as Cho Chnx, Sene Dolta, Ok Om Bok ... Local people come to the temple to worship, to worship, Organizing fun, attracting a large number of tourists from all over the world to attend. Visitors to the temple on festivals not only enjoy and attend traditional cultural and artistic activities of the indigenous Khmer but also experience the dishes that people bring to the temple, in the air. Jubilant atmosphere all night. With the typical cultural features, it can be said that Monivongsa Bopharam is a place to preserve the unique cultural values of the Khmer people in Ca Mau, the temple as a charm of the southernmost city always welcomes visitors.
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Ngày cập nhật : 09/02/2025
