Photos of The Manchunman Buddhist Temple

Manchunman Buddhist Temple is located in the Dai Nationality Park in Menghan Town, Jinghong City, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture. It was built in AD 583 and has a history of more than 1,400 years. It is one of the famous local Buddhist temples. It is said that it was built after Buddhism was introduced to Xishuangbanna. the first Buddhist temple. But the original Buddhist temple was destroyed in the 1960s, and the Buddhist temple that people see now was built in the late 1970s. Manchun is full of Dai language, which means garden village. Legend has it that Jinghong Xuanwei once sent people to plant flowers here, and later developed into a village, hence the name Manchunman - Garden Village. The Dai Nationality Garden is composed of five Dai villages, namely Manjiang, Manchunman, Mancha, Manting, and Manga. With Manchunman Buddhist Temple as the core, it fully demonstrates the mystery and strangeness of Theravada Buddhism, which has been transmitted to the south for thousands of years. Manchunman Buddhist Temple is well-known in Southeast Asia. During major Buddhist events every year, monks and believers from Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Xishuangbanna and other places gather at Manchunman Buddhist Temple to hold pilgrimage and chanting activities. Therefore, the incense here is exuberant, and the Buddhist temples, pagodas, misty incense and the chanting of little monks here add to the tranquility and mystery. The main hall standing in the center is the main body of the building complex, covering an area of 490 square meters. The main hall is 23.5 meters long and 21 meters wide, in a rectangular shape. At the end of the roof, there are auspicious birds lying down, and there are several pottery ornaments in the middle. The indoor Buddhist hall is tall and wide, and 44 circular cement columns with diameters of 0.4 meters and 0.6 meters are arranged on both sides of the hall. The column height is 12 meters, and the short column is also four or five meters. All columns are made of red as the base color.