Siamese Pagoda (Bac Lieu) is one of the most beautiful and largest Khmer temples in the West.
Located about 7 km from the center of Bac Lieu City and about 2 km from the coast, Siamese Pagoda bears a khmer architectural imprint.
The pagoda was started construction in 1887 with an area of more than 4,500 m2. This is a whole architecture consisting of many items such as wall, gate, main hall, sala, bell tower, resting place of monks, lecture halls, pillars, tomb towers. They’re all headed east. This is the Khmer notion that the path to achieving Buddha’s fruit is from west to east.
Surrounding the pagoda is a fortified fence, with many impressive patterns. On site and the entrance there are quite a lot of tall trees planted right in the straight line. Inside the temple grounds there is always a sweep.
The view is open inside the pagoda courtyard.
The pagoda has a statue depicting Crown Prince Sidatta crossing the river to find his way to enlightenment. According to the original inhabitants, the temple was called Komphirsakor Prét Chru which means deep river, later changed to Siamese, meaning “water border”, meaning a pagoda on a land right next to the coastal mudfield.
The temple grounds have dozens of large and small Buddha statues, many of which are of various sizes, depicting the periods of Buddha’s incarnation.
The rectangular pagoda main building, built right in the middle of the campus, follows three levels of 4 m high and 18 steps to go up. The entrance to the main palace has a large unicorn double figure, next to the elaborately crafted patterns.
The space inside the main palace is decorated with frescoes and vanity that tells the story of Buddha’s life from birth, to the process of cultivating at fruit.
In the middle of the main palace is a semicircular pedestal nearly 2 m high and divided into several steps worshiping the Statue of Buddha.
Many details in the main palace are decorated with elaborate, elaborate and colorful frescoes bearing the Buddhist imprint.
Siamese Pagoda has a unique architecture, and is home to many cultural beauty in the spiritual life of ethnic Khmer people. In the South, the pagoda is considered one of the symbols of khmer architecture and culture.
The pagoda currently maintains the organization of Khmer cultural classes, Buddhist philosophy to young monks. The great part of the Khmer people follow Nam Tong Buddhism, so the pagoda is an invisible rope that connects with the people and complements each other in the process of existence and development. It is customed that Khmer teenagers aged 12 and over are allowed to study at the temples.
A corner of the living space of the young monks in the temple. Siamese Pagoda is considered a place to preserve and promote the traditional cultural values of ethnic Khmer people.
The Khmer people conceived that the youth who studied to the level of Sayi were to repay their fathers, to repay their mother. Some people learn more to improve their core level of cultivation to cultivate their minds, cultivate their nature, and improve.
The gate of the pagoda at night. Currently, Siamese Temple is one of the tourist attractions. On the way to the pagoda, visitors can visit some famous attractions of Bac Lieu nearby such as wind power fields, antique label gardens, ancient mango gardens …
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