An Quang Pagoda

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An Quang Pagoda

The An Quang Pagoda ( Vietnamese Ấn Quang tự or Chùa Ấn Quang , also Ung Quang , Chinese 印 光寺 ) on Su Van Hanh Street in the 10th district in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly “Saigon “) Is a meeting place for representatives of Buddhism and the seat of the Institute for Dharma Preaching. Although the pagoda has only existed since 1948, it still reflects the checkered history and development of Vietnamese Buddhism for more than half a century. At first it was just a small building called Ứng Quang in Vietnamese , which was built by Thích Trí Hữu and handed over to Thích Thiện Hòa (1907–1978) in 1950. He had the main hall redesigned and additional rooms added. In 1951 the building was renamed "Ấn Quang" and officially consecrated in July 1953 as "Chùa Ấn Quang". After the Second World War from 1959 to 1963, the center of Buddhist activities, the seat of the College for Buddhist Studies and the headquarters of the Association of United Buddhists in Vietnam were located here . The buildings of the pagoda were continuously expanded and expanded and, in addition to a large auditorium and a library, there were also some farm buildings such as a printing shop, publishing house and incense candle production. The importance of the pagoda lies in the large number of Dharma teachers who have received their well-founded training here together with thousands of monks and nuns .

Today the pagoda serves as the headquarters of the Buddhist Sangha of Ho Chi Minh City.

Among the founders of the An Quang Buddhist Institute in 1949 was Thích Nhất Hạnh .

literature

  • Nguyẽ̂n Lang: Chùa Ấn Quang và Chùa Xá Lợi ở Nam Việt . In: Việt Nam Phật giáo sử luận . Lá Bó̂i, San Jose, CA 1993 (Vietnamese, langmai.org ).
  • Trần Mạnh Thường: Chùa Ấn Quang . In: Quang Minh (ed.): Việt Nam - Văn hóa và du lịch . Nxb Thông tấn, Hanoi June 2005, p. 579 (Vietnamese, books.google.de - Vietnam - Culture and Tourism).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chùa Ấn Quang. In: giacngo.vn. Retrieved June 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Thích Nhất Hạnh: History of Engaged Buddhism. A Dharma Talk by Thich Nhat Hanh, Hanoi, Vietnam, May 6-7, 2008. In: Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge. Volume 6, No. 3, Article 7, 2008 ( scholarworks.umb.edu ).

Coordinates: 10 ° 45 ′ 57 ″  N , 106 ° 40 ′ 18 ″  E