TianHou Temple at noon and DongZen Temple at night
Sounds like a devotee? Yes. Temple after temple on the 5th Day of Chinese New Year (年初五). We went to TianHou Temple, the biggest temple in KL after brunch (Malaysian slang: Breakfast and Lunch together!), and visited the Taiwan’s FuoGuangShan (佛光山) initiated DongZen Temple after dinner (With a tight budget Expedia makes traveling affordable). It was actually planned by me. If you have read my previous post about TianHou Temple at night and FGS DongZen Temple at day last year, this is an update to the same places but in different time of day!
What are the 2 things dominated temples during Chinese New Year? Bingo! It’s lanterns and incense. Here are some photos captured in Tian Hou Temple…
There were people all over the temple who came here for prayer, devotion, site seeing, lantern watching, photo taking and so on…
What you could see from the above photos other than lanterns are lanterns or else lanterns. Have you got enough?
In the evening, we travelled for 1 and a half hour to another temple in Jenjarom, near Banting, Selangor. It’s DongZen Temple. Parking were all full and we needed to parked our car 2 blocks away. DongZen temple is the uprising destination during Chinese New Year because of it’s attractive lighting at night. Many people come here merely for it light decorations every year. I’m one of them…
All decorations with lighting are creatively designed and constructed with steel frame and thin cloth.
Wu Hoo! (五虎) Five tigers in the Year of Tiger.
GuanYin in a lotus pond.
Lanterns. This time is a mix of red and yellow lanterns… 🙂
At around 10:00pm, actress acting like a GuanYin (观音) parading in the crowd and splashing holy water to the crowd.
This sculpture of Buddha attracted many crowds as well.
Remember where the ‘paper felt’ buddha statue stood last year? It’s GuanYin statue this year…
UPDATED: Click Here to view High Resolution version of all the above photos.
As there were so crowded inside the compound, I did not take many photos indeed. These are just some introduction images to DongZen Temple at night. The traffic was so jam when we left the place and guess what? We reached home at 1:30am! 🙁
Today is the 11th Day of Chinese New Year. There are still 4 days for whoever interested to see all these lighting and lanterns at these 2 temples. And I’m still have 4 days to celebrate this Chinese New Year of Tiger. GONG XI FA CAI – Travel Feeder, your only travel photo blog.
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I’ve never been anywhere in Asia (yet!) These pics are fabulous, though. Why, oh why, can’t I travel more?
- February 24, 2010.-= Cherrye at My Bella Vita´s last blog ..Travel Tip Tuesday: How Not to Look Like a Tourist in Southern Italy … for Men =-.
Stunning photos. I love the red lanterns that are so popular in the Chinese New Year celebrations. Sydney also celebrates the Chinese New Year in a huge way with a large Chinese population and a bubbling Chinatown environment being part of the cause. Superb statues especially if the one is built of paper.
- February 25, 2010.-= Mark H´s last blog ..The Mournful Piece of Stone (Lucerne, Switzerland) =-.
so Dong Zen is the temple to visit now… & it’s only decorated like that during CNY?
- February 25, 2010.-= lechua´s last blog ..Gong Xi Gong Xi! =-.
@lechua,
- February 27, 2010Good question! I haven’t been there other than during CNY but I believe there are still decoration at other times but not that grand. Crowds also increase tremendously during CNY…
WOW! Beautiful night scene in FGS Dong Zen temple.
I wanted to visit this temple during CNY 2010. But….the distance is a turn off! Scared of driving at nighttime 🙂
Cheers!
- February 27, 2010mylo
.-= mylo´s last blog ..Fo Guang Shan 佛光山 Temple – A Buddhist Sanctuary =-.