Visited 3 Buddhist temples in Kelantan, Malaysia!
Today, August 8, 2011 I visited three large Buddhist temples in Kelantan, East Malaysia. They are Wat Machimmaram, Wat Pikulthong and Wat Photivihan. Wat means Temple or place of worship. I saw these temples on the internet some time back and wanted to visit. And now I have.
Many tourists visit these temples and the taxis know how to get there also. Not a problem. I have filmed my visit for you to enjoy. If you can’t get there right now, then visit through my video here.
The temples are 45 minutes drive from the capital of Kelantan State which is Kota Bahru. It is a pleasant drive but very hot…take plenty of water, hat and umbrella if you can…. I went to visit these temples with my blog team which consists of Beng Kooi, Justin Ripley, Ethan, Bryan, Seng Piow and Monlam.
Enjoy and hope you can visit also one day. Tsem Rinpoche
Dear Rinpoche~
Thank you so much for putting this video here for me to see. I took a break from my finals study and I’m so glad that I did. These places are so beautiful and I’m so glad that you could travel and see them!
Dear Rinpoche,
Your Eminence have now visited many temples and seen for yourself the many a splendid temples that has been constructed all around us. It can be done and has been done many times over by many. KWPC will be up in no time as the next spiritual wonder spot in the world. It just takes some effort in getting it all together to build momentum. Just need to have the building blocks in place,and a realistic timeline – yeah?
I have to remember to have pictures or cameras when I visit holy places… More merits to share right?
Perusing through Rinpoche’s blog of his visits to 3 buddhist temples in Kelantan has obviously brought back vividly the first visit I had of Wat Photivihan 20 years ago. Build in 1980, Wat Photivihan, one of the most amazing and famous thai buddhist temple housing the longest reclining statue of Lord Buddha, 40 meters in length. It is still obviously a very popular temple, with a very large numbers of devotees and pilgrims of thai origin. This was the first reclining statue of Buddha I ever had the affinity to set my eyes on, and also the merit to circumbulate round Buddha’s statue in a recline state with so many others at that time. The experience I had of Wat Machimmaran was that of a quick passing through tour and could still recalled that many of the statues had a mixture of Thai/Chinese orientated designs and appearances, which took the skilled thai craftsmen about 10 years to complete and build up. Though I did not have the opportunity to visit Wat Pikulthong, I hope to have the chance to do so one fine day should my Karma permits! Om mani padme hum.
i like the cowboy hat very much. There is a very nice temple in the forests of northern thailand that I have been to, it has a golden reclining buddha in a cave. It’s so beautiful I used to love to sit in there.
As a Malaysian who is born and breed in Malaysia, Kelantan is the least expected place that I could think of having beautiful and large buddha statues. It is amazing to see temples having large acres of land in Kelantan and I have not seen a huge Buddha statue sitting on top of a buildingin my life. At some point of my life I would definitely visit tyese temples, treating it as pilgrmage as inidicated by Rinpoche in the video clip. Dear Rinpoche, thank you for sharing with us your trip to the beautiful temples in Kelantan. Dear seng Piao, beng kooi, justin and others who have followed rinpoche on this trip who have worked hard to upload and blog about Rinpoche’s trip to the temples in Kelantan, THANK YOU!!
Thank You Rinpoche for sharing the visit to these temple. the Buddha statue at these Wat is indeed wonderful, especially the architecture and the craftsmanship of each of the statue.
It is nice to see that the north eastern state of peninsula Malaysia, Kelantan, has so many beautiful Wats. With close proximity to southern Thailand, the influence of Buddhism and Thai architecture is evident. The state capital, Kota Baru, is accessible by airplane and by good roads.
Thank you, Rinpoche, for this video of the three temples.
Thank you Rinpoche once again for showing us these beautiful Buddhas which are in our home land. Last week I visited the Tian Tan Buddha, Hong Kong and followed a group of visitors there in circumabulating the statue. Now I understand the significance of circumabulating, and thank you for explaining. It’s nice to know that we have so many wonderful Buddha statues on our doorstep as well.