Mahavira Hall

Main hall of a buddhist temple in China, Korea or Vietnam

This article is about the Main Hall in Chinese Buddhist temple. For the Main Hall in Japanese Buddhist temple, see Main Hall (Japanese Buddhism).

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Mahavira Hall
Hanyu Pinyin		Dàxióng Bǎodiàn
Wade–Giles	Ta-hsiung Pao-tien
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ	Tōa-hiông Pó-tiān

Vietnamese nameVietnamese alphabetĐại hùng Bửu điện (Đại hùng Bảo điện)
Chính điện (Chánh điện)Chữ Hán大雄寶殿
正殿Korean nameHangul대웅전Hanja大雄殿Japanese nameKanji大雄宝殿

At the back of Sakyamuni's statue, three statues of Bodhisattva facing the north are usually enshrined.[5]^[6][7] They are Manjushri Bodhisattva riding a lion, Samantabhadra Bodhisattva riding a white elephant and Guanyin Bodhisattva riding a dragon.^[5][6][7] Some temples also set island scene behind Sakyamuni's statue and only enshrine the statue Guanyin Bodhisattva with a clean vase of water and a willow branch in it.^[5][6][7]

Examples

• The Mahavira Hall of Shanghai's Longhua Temple
• The Mahavira Hall of Hangzhou's Lingyin Temple
• The Main Hall of Shanghai's Jing'an Temple
• The Main Hall of Datong's Shanhua Temple
• The Main Hall of Gaobeidian's Kaishan Temple
• The Main Hall of Yixian's Fengguo Temple
• The Main Hall of
  Ocean Banner Temple

See also

• Hall of Four Heavenly Kings, another common hall in Chinese temples
• Hall of Guanyin
• Lustral basin
• Japanese Buddhist Main Halls, some of which are Chinese-style Mahavira Halls

References

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