The Kuan-Yin Hall
Dear customers, surely in each of us When someone needs love, protection, need to be soothed the pain in daily life. It seems that the image of Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara was erected as a spiritual support for mankind. Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara is greatly respected by sentient beings, considered the gentlest and gentlest of all good mothers. He has boundless love for mankind.
Mother Quan Am has a vow of compassion, virtue, and salvation. Whenever sentient beings have pain, have an urgent need for help, just recite his name, he will immediately examine and help. He saved countless sentient beings tirelessly and without limits. You are stopping at Quan Am Palace, the most unique main hall of Bai Dinh Pagoda because the architecture is made entirely of wood with 900m of wooden blocks, the height of the main hall is about 14m and 16m wide.
Placed in the center of the main hall is a statue that has been certified by the Vietnam Record Book Center as the largest bronze statue of Quan The Am in Vietnam. The statue is about 10m high; weighing 90 tons made of copper inlaid with gold. As we all know, Guanyin is a buddha representing the four great immeasurables: great compassion, great compassion, great joy, and great equanimity, so everywhere, Guanyin Buddha always symbolizes kindness. compassion, save suffering, save all sentient beings. The statue here is the image of Quan Am Thien Thu Thien Nhan (ie Quan Yin thousand hands and thousand eyes). According to legend, she was the daughter of King Dieu Trang Vuong, leaving wealth and wealth to practice Buddhism, she sacrificed both her hands and eyes to cure her father's illness. Therefore, the Buddha gave her a thousand eyes and a thousand hands so that she could do more public works and see and understand the sufferings of sentient beings a thousand times more.
As we can see, the statue of Guanyin here is shown with 3 overlapping faces. Legend has it that she thinks about sentient beings too much, so her head is broken into 3; There are also people who explain it as the three religions of the same religion: Confucianism - Taoism - Buddha. The statue has 5 pairs of large hands, each hand shows a different seal, there are hands with the hand seal of Meditation, there are hands with the seal of Lotus flower, but no matter how the seal is, it shows compassion. the love of Bodhisattva Guanyin and Buddhism towards sentient beings.
A special thing is that Quan Am statue is carved sitting on a lotus, with a demon team. Thus, we can understand that this is also the image of the statue of Guanyin Nam Hai. The reason why it is called Quan Am Nam Hai is because it is in the Southern Sea. And the demon wearing the lotus is called Obananda dragon king (referred to as Nanda dragon king).
The image of a demon wearing a lotus flower shows that the power of the Buddhadharma has permeated to hell. In particular, looking to the two sides of the main hall, you can see that there are worshiping 2 Quan Am statues made from 2 monolithic wooden trees, with both tree roots and tree tops. The origin of the two trees was found by sand miners. Initially, they wanted to cut the wood to sell but could not. In the process of sawing wood, unexpected things happened, then a businessman bought these 2 trees and made merit to Bai Dinh pagoda. With the ingenuity and skill of the artisans, from 1 tree they have carved into 2 statues, 2 priceless art masterpieces that you are admiring. With a height of 9m and weighing about 4 tons, wood experts identified this precious wood as Hoi wood, and it was about 1000 years old.
After that, we invite you to move to visit the last point of Bai Dinh pagoda, which is Bat Chinh Dao. Thank you for listening!