Wat
Chùa Ghositaram
Chùa Ghositaram (Chùa Cù Lao) is a Khmer Theravada Buddhist Wat in Cù Lao hamlet, Hưng Hội commune, Cà Mau province, Vietnam.[1][2]
History
The Wat was founded in 1860 on 4 ha (10 acres). It takes its common name from its hamlet, Cù Lao. Until the 2025 provincial merger it stood in Vĩnh Lợi district, Bạc Liêu province.[1]
Architecture
The main hall, built over ten years, covers 427.5 m2 (4,600 sq ft) and rises 36.3 m (119 ft), with pointed spires in red and gold and outer walls covered in murals and colored reliefs.[1]
A stupa begun in 2019 was inaugurated on January 25, 2025. It measures 18 m by 18 m (59 by 59 ft) and stands 30 m (98 ft) high with its crowning Buddha image, built of concrete with carvings in the Theravada tradition. Seven Buddha images were installed in it: a 5 m (16 ft) image at the top, five images on the upper floor and a reclining Buddha 10 m (33 ft) long on the ground floor. The stupa and images cost 13 billion đồng, given by lay followers in Vietnam and abroad.[3]
Religious life
As of 2025 and 2026, the abbot was Hòa thượng (Most Venerable) Hữu Hinh, a member of the Council of Patronage of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha.[2][4] On July 3, 2025, eleven novices received full ordination as monks at the Wat, with Hữu Hinh as preceptor and six abbots of Khmer Wats of the province as the ordaining assembly.[2] On July 30, 2026, the monks began the Vassa rains retreat; that year seven monks and nine novices kept the retreat at the Wat.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Người Đô Thị, Về Bạc Liêu thăm ngôi chùa Khmer đẹp bậc nhất đồng bằng sông Cửu Long (February 7, 2022)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Phật Giáo Bạc Liêu, Cà Mau: Giới đàn thọ giới Tỳ kheo tại chùa Ghositaram (Chùa Cù Lao) (July 4, 2025)
- ↑ Phật Giáo Bạc Liêu, Bạc Liêu: Khánh thành bảo tháp và an vị Phật tại chùa Ghositaram (January 26, 2025)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Phật Giáo Bạc Liêu, Cà Mau: Chùa Ghositaram (chùa Cù Lao) trang nghiêm tác pháp An cư Kiết hạ PL.2570, DL.2026 (July 30, 2026)