At a press of a button, hundreds of devotees and donors were able to light up the largest Buddhist Monastery complex in South East Asia, "The Kek Lok Si temple" and turned it into a brightly lit and sparkling fairyland in Penang.
With a total of more than 10,000 lanterns and 230,000 decorative tiny bubs of all sizes and designs,they will be illuminating every shrines, pagoda and gardens nightly from 11th February to 17th of March 2007.
It's the usual way for the Chinese in Penang to usher in the Chinese New Year with
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the Kuan Yin Hall
the Kuan Yin Hall was rebuilt some ten years ago replacing the century old...
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Kuan Yin's Shrine Hall
a large shrine hall of Kuan Yin Bodhistta
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Kuan Yin statue
Kuan Shi Yin statue sitting in the middle of the hall.
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thousands of Kuan Yin statues
mini Kuan Yin statues placed on all sides of the walls
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wireman at work
wireman busy fixing up lanterns and wiring
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ceremonial site
this is the place where the ceremony of the lighting of lanterns took place.
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site arrangement
these are the sites arrangement for VIPs and generous donors for the...
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scene of ceremonial site
with prayers cushion ready in circular arrangement while devotees and...
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ribbons
a final check on donors'ribbons.
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testing, testing 1 2 3
a temple monk testing on a microphone to make sure everything goes well on time.
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fire crackers
fire crackers hanging from top to bottom waiting for the big bang !
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the altar
offering of fruits,candles, flora arrangment were placed at the altar getting...
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wireman
wire man and electricians busy at work putting the finishing touches.
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all quite at the front
it was all quite at the site as most devotees were having dinner at the lower...
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scene of the dining hall
finally food arrived and all were served with vegetarian meal.
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nice decorations
wooden craved three gods of happiness, prosperity and longivity in the...
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dolls with Chinese dress
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dining hall with Maitreya Buddha
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vegetarian hall
all tables were full with devotees in the dining hall waiting to be served.
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crowded hall
no more seats, some devotees have to stand and wait for more tables...
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buffet style
all tables haven been taken up so the only way is to have a buffet...
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wooden fish
I saw this century old wooden fish which has been there in Kek Lok Si since I...
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pagoda with a dark background
with the sun setting behind hill, the pagoda almost fell into darkness.
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a pavilion far behind
before the entire monastery were lighted up.
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the crowd at the scene
taken from the pagoda
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