Truc Lam Temple Buddha - Dalat, Vietnam
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Truc Lam Temple is a Zen Buddhist temple outside the resort town of Dalat, in Vietnam.
Waymark Code: WME49Y
Location: Vietnam
Date Posted: 04/01/2012
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The gold painted statue in the main ceremonial hall is of Gautama Buddha seated on a lotus. It is about 5 feet tall.
Buddha was born approximately 560 B.C. in Northern India. Through his life, Buddha gave the concept of Nirvana an unprecedented exposure to a large portion of the Eastern world with his achievement of and subsequent teachings about the state of enlightenment. As a religion, Buddhism contains the attainment of Buddhahood or Nirvana as a central precept of its teachings. Among the teachings of the Buddha to the world, the foremost was "Ahimsa" (not causing harm to anyone).
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