Long Son Pagoda (also known as White Buddha, Dang Long Tu) is located at the foot of Trai Thuy hill, Nha Trang city, Khanh Hoa. The temple was founded by the Venerable Thich Ngo Tri in 1886 with the name Dang Long tu. At first, the pagoda was only a small cottage, going through many renovations, so it was enlarged and majestic as today.
The temple campus is larger than 3000 m2. The main hall is over 1,500 m2 with a bronze Buddha statue sitting on a sermon, 1.6m high and 700kg.
From the temple, to climb to the top of Trai Thuy hill, you have to go to 193 steps. At the 44th stage is the statue of Buddha to enter Nirvana 17m long and 5m high.
Keep going up, you will see the bell tower with the common rose 2.2m high, weighing 1,500kg. At the top of the hill is a statue of Kim Than Buddha (also called a white Buddha) sermon, 24m high statue, 7m high lotus throne was built in 1963. Guinness Vietnam recognized this as "the outer Buddha image" The biggest sky in Vietnam ".
The temple was founded by the Venerable Thich Ngo Tri in 1886 with the name Dang Long tu. At first, the pagoda was only a small cottage, going through many renovations, so it was enlarged and majestic as today.
The main hall is more than 1,500 m2.
The rafters are made of solid and tall wood.
Inside the main hall, there is also a bronze Buddha image sitting on a sermon, 1.6 m high, 700 kg.
From the temple, to climb to the top of Trai Thuy hill, you have to go to 193 steps.
At the 44th stage is the statue of Buddha to enter Nirvana 17m long and 5m high.
Keep going up, you will see the bell tower with the common rose 2.2m high, weighing 1,500 kg.
At the top of the hill is a statue of Kim Than Buddha (also called a white Buddha) sermon, 24m high statue, 7m high lotus throne was built in 1963. Guinness Vietnam recognized this as "the outer Buddha image" The biggest sky in Vietnam ".
Around the lotus platform, there is a statue of Kim Than Buddha sculpting portraits of Thich Quang Duc and 6 other monks who set themselves on fire to protest the repression of Buddhism by Ngo Dinh diem in 1963.
Behind the statue of Golden Body Buddha has an entrance, the two sides of the door carved two guardian deities.
The space inside the small lotus is surrounded by many Buddha statues.
Standing on the top of the hill, visitors will see the whole city.
