Bai Dinh, The Biggest Pagoda In ASEAN

Bai Dinh Pagoda is located in the rural mountains of Sinh Duoc village, Gia Sinh commune, Gia Vien District, Ninh Binh province, about 12 km from Ninh Binh city and 5km from Hoa Lu, beside the Trang An ecological tourism.
 
Bai Dinh Pagoda is famous for its great size and majestic scenery. The pagoda is also set more record for the owner of the most Arhat Statues in ASEAN with 500 Arhat statues made of stone and stand higher than human’s head with the area for constructing Bai Dinh Pagoda is 80 ha. Its back leans against the Bai Dinh Mountain with the height of 200m.

The most important emphasizing point of these great religion works are still Tam The Temple and Dharma Temple. The area of two Temples up to 1.000m2 (area of the main sanctuary of traditional pagodas is maximum about 150m2 because it is limited by compartments - stipulated by the length of wood beam). The height of Dharma Temple is up to 22m, it contains four achieving record statues inside.

Four statues - three bronze Tam The statues and one Great Buddha Sakyamuni statue - are the pride of “Owners” of Bai Dinh pagoda. Each statue of Tam The weighs 50 tons, 12m high, Great Buddha Sakyamuni statue with 16m high and weighs 100 tons, which are casted by the pure bronze bought from Russian, casted and installed by the famous Artisans of casting bronze statue in Y Yen, Nam Dinh. A “great bell” with the weight of 60 tons was casted and located on the top of hill on the way come to the main sanctuary. The great bell is so big that it is estimated if wanting to sound the bell, it will need a big log of wood and four puller the log of wood to prod into the bell.
The astonishing one is the “collection” of 500 Arhat statues on the hill in the right of Dharma Temple. The 500 Arhat statues with the height of 2.3m, carved by Ninh Binh stone.

Ecologically and historically rich, the Bai Dinh Pagoda Mountain was recognised as a cultural and historical heritage site in 1997. Bai Dinh Pagoda is the largest religious tourist centre in Viet Nam.
Some record of Bai Dinh Pagoda is set as follows: 

1. Buddha bronze statue of Asia's largest gold statue 100 tonnes copper in power France Owner

2. The bronze statue is the largest in Southeast Asia: Buddha Maitreya outdoor 100 tonnes.

3. Vietnam's largest copper Bell: Great bell weighs 36 tons in the Belfry.

4. Vietnam's largest pagoda Area: total 539 hectares.

5. Zone Arhat Temple corridor of Asia's longest: Arhat corridor approximately 3 kilometers.

6. The area has many arhat temple in Vietnam: 500 green stone about 2m high.

7. Zone wells jade pagoda in Vietnam.

8. Zone Bodhi temple has the most number of Vietnam: 100 linden linden extracted from India.

As a great historical relics, Bai Dinh Pagoda cherishes both: enchanting scenery and deep history. Let’s give you a chance to enjoy the beauty and majestic scenery of Bai Dinh Pagoda.  its great size and imposingness can be felt by anybody when visiting it one time.

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