291. The Normal

For any trip in Vietnam, it would not be completed without visits to temples. These photos was taken at Long Sơn Temple, Nha Trang, Vietnam.

White Buddha, 21m height, built 1963.

The original site of the temple, on the base are the status of 7 arahants, Buddhist monks who believed to have reach nirvana. 

Thích Quảng Đức, the self-immolation monk.

He, who burned himself at a busy intersectin in Saigon during the Vietnam war, was protesting against the prosecution of Buddhist monks by the South Vietnam's Roman Catholic regime.

Inclined Buddha, 21m long, built 2003.