My little niece praying to the Goddess of Mercy. She is very pious and can always explain to me buddhist quotes from the teachings of Buddha book. I am a free thinker but I love to read the teachings of Buddha. Although I am a free thinker, I will always donate to the temple. The donation helps to maintain the temple and also helps the poor.
During festive period and every 1st and 15th of every chinese lunar month, they have vegetarian meals.
This is a wooden fish in the temple and it is huge. It is used by the monks when they chant prayers.
There are many legends on why they named it wooden fish.
A monk went to India to acquire sutras. On his way to India, he found the way blocked by a wide, flooding river. There appeared neither bridge nor boat.
Suddenly, a big fish swam up. It offered to carry the monk across the river. The fish told the monk that it wanted to atone for a crime committed when it was a human. The fish made a simple request, that on the monk's way to obtain sutras, to ask the Buddha to guide the fish on a method to attain Bodhisattvahood.
The monk agreed to the fish's request and continued his quest for seventeen years. After getting the scriptures, he returned to China via the river, which was flooding again. As the monk worried about how to cross, the fish came back to help. It asked if the monk had made the request to the Buddha. To the monk's dismay, he had forgotten. The fish became furious and splashed the monk, washing him into the river. A passing fisherman saved him from drowning, but unfortunately the sutras had been ruined by the water.
The monk went home full of anger. Filled with anger at the fish, he made a wooden effigy of a fish head. When he recalled his adversity, he beat the fish head with a wooden hammer. To his surprise, each time he beat the wooden fish, the fish opened its mouth and vomited a character. He became so happy that, when he had time, he always beat the fish. A few years later, he had got back from the wooden fish's mouth what he had lost to the flood.(Source:
wikipedia)
Reclining Buddha - am sure the stone used must be very precious cause the buddha look so beautiful.
Sharkyamuni Buddha
Buddhist Maitreya in Budai form
I hope the names I used to identify the buddha idols are correct. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Before approaching the mosque, saw several murals at Muscat Street, they looked so beautiful. There are more but only managed to catpure few.
Several tourists taking the local trishaws touring the area. Strange,I dont take our local trishaw but when overseas I actually love taking the trishaw hahaha.
Directions to Sultan Mosque (section map taken from Map of Singapore - free map can be obtained from Singapore Tourism Board, most hotels, malls, airport, etc)
Kwong Chow Wui Koon, one of the many Cantonese clan associations set up in the early 1920s. it was well-known for its music and opera show.
Sri Layan Sithi Vinayagar Temple is located in center of China Town at the junction of Keong Saik Road and Kreta Ayer Road. This temple that was built in 1925, has a very long history. You can read more about the history of the temple from its official website.
So many pigeons in the corner park near the temple, spotted a lone white pigeon among them.
Did not know there's so many restaurants in these rows of shophouses. Will try to visit another time and walk further in this stretch of the roads.
Outram MRT Station (NEL Line)
