The Sacred Buddha Tooth Temple in the Chinatown section of Singapore fascinated me, so I have decided to do a posting just of the photos of the temple. The Buddha's tooth is encased in a 320 kilogram solid gold reliquary! The next posting, Part 3, will be of Raffles Hotel (home of the Singapore Sling), Merlion Park, and random photos which I took from the upper deck of the tour bus as we followed the route of the tour.
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| One of the "guards" at the entrance to the temple. |
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| The interior courtyard to the temple, at which point you take off your shoes to enter the temple. |
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| The sweet aroma of incense filled the temple!! |
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| If you think this is a statue of the main Buddha, you ain't seen nothin' yet! |
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| The main attraction! It is quite beautiful when you view it real time. |
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| The area in front of the Buddha is filled with hundreds of offerings of flowers, fruits, fragrant oil lamps, money, and statues of mythic guards watching over all the loot! |
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| All of the walls of the temple, from floor to ceiling, were lined with thousands of miniature and small statues of Buddha in various poses. |
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| This statue of Buddha (which is considerably large) is in a shrine ("chapel") directly behind the main statue of Buddha. |
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| Views of the main statue of Buddha were all taken at a distance from the side of the temple, since no one was allowed directly in front of the statue. |
The next posting....Raffles Hotel. Interesting name for a hotel, where did it come from? (Something for you to Google!)
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| Only guests of the hotel may use the front entrance and enter the lobby of the hotel, everyone else is ushered into a side door. The arcades of the hotel, including The Long Bar, are open to the public. |
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