Enlightened Heart Temple 心意佛院, Ipoh, Perak

Enlightened Heart Temple, Ipoh (19 October, 2018)


Enlightened Heart Temple (GPS: 4.6039, 101.15404; Simplified/Traditional Chinese: 心意佛院) is a huge Tibetan Buddhist temple in Ipoh, Perak. It is in Tambun, on the northeastern outskirts of the city. The temple is accessed from Jalan Ampang, with the distance from the main road about roughly 1.1km.

The Enlightened Heart Tibetan Buddhist Temple was established by a local named Yong Si Fu, who took on the name of Ge Li Rinpoche after he embraced Tibetan Buddhism. It started on a modest scale in 1976, but over the subsequent decades grew to reach its present size, comprising a complex of halls, gardens and pagodas, with innumerable statues of the Buddha and other religious iconography. Today the Enlightened Heart Temple is the largest Tibetan Buddhist temple in the country.

One of the most imposing sights at this temple is the Enlightened Heart Medicine Buddha Bhaishaya Guru Pagoda. Standing at an imposing height of 72 meters, it encases a colossal statue of the Shakyamuni Buddha. Standing at level 8 of the pagoda, the statue garbed in painted gold, stares over the sprawling grounds below.

Address

Enlightened Heart Temple
No. 77C, Jalan Leong Sin Nam,
30300 Ipoh, Perak.

Visiting

Enlightened Heart Temple is open to the public daily from 9:00am to 5:00pm, and admission is free.

Main entrance to the Enlightened Heart Temple (19 October, 2018)


Incense being laid out in the sun. (19 October, 2018)


Front entrance of Enlightened Heart Temple. (19 October, 2018)


Statue of the Goddess of Mercy in a lily pond at the Enlightened Heart Temple. (19 October, 2018)


Multi-limb deity at Enlightened Heart Temple. (19 October, 2018)


Altars with figurines of the Budai and other bodhisattvas (19 October, 2018)


Corridor lined with prayer wheels at the Enlightened Heart Temple. (19 October, 2018)


Close-up view of the prayer wheels. (19 October, 2018)


Tibetan style pavilion at Enlightened Heart Temple. (19 October, 2018)


The Tibetan style pavilion with the Medicine Buddha Bhaishaya Guru Pagoda. (19 October, 2018)


Entrance to the pavilion with the Medicine Buddha Bhaishaya Guru Pagoda to the rear. (19 October, 2018)


At the centre of the pavilion is a multi-limb image. (19 October, 2018)


Lily pond surrounds the pavilion. (19 October, 2018)


A pantheon of images in the main pavilion. (19 October, 2018)


Centre of the main pavilion, with space around it for parikrama or circumambulation. (19 October, 2018)


A green-coloured Buddha statue in the main pavilion. (19 October, 2018)


The walls of the main pavilion are decorated with relief. (19 October, 2018)


Entrance to the Medicine Buddha Bhaishaya Guru Pagoda. (19 October, 2018)


Passage to the Medicine Buddha Bhaishaya Guru Pagoda. (19 October, 2018)


Looking up the atrium of the Medicine Buddha Bhaishaya Guru Pagoda. (19 October, 2018)


Spiral staircase at Medicine Buddha Bhaishaya Guru Pagoda. (19 October, 2018)


A jungle of columns at one of the intermediate floors. (19 October, 2018)


Crow's nest pavilion at Enlighteneed Heart Temple. (19 October, 2018)


View form the crow's nest pavilion. (19 October, 2018)


View of the crow's nest pavilion, with the Buddha statue of Jingang Jing She Temple behind it. (19 October, 2018)


Each level of the Medicine Buddha Bhaishaya Guru Pagoda has windows that form alcoves installed with seated Buddhas. (19 October, 2018)


Looking down the atrium of the Medicine Buddha Bhaishaya Guru Pagoda. (19 October, 2018)


The colossal statue of the Buddha, on the 8th floor of the pagoda. (19 October, 2018)


View of the grounds of the Enlightened Heart temple from the pagoda. (19 October, 2018)

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Enlightened Heart Temple (Apr 2018)

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