Wat
Chùa Peam Buôl Thmây
វត្តពាមបួនថ្មី
Chùa Peam Buôl Thmây (វត្តពាមបួនថ្មី)[1] is a Khmer Theravada Buddhist Wat in Sóc Trăng ward, Cần Thơ, Vietnam, founded in 1964 beside the Sung Đinh crossroads.[2][3]
History
The Wat was built in 1964 with brick walls and a simple metal roof, so that the people of the Sung Đinh area had a place of worship. Peam Buôl Thmây means "new crossroads" in Khmer, which sets it apart from two older Wats named Peam Buôl. Local people also call it Chùa Ngã Tư (Crossroads Wat) or Chùa Sung Đinh, after the old village of Sung Đinh.[3] It stands where the Maspéro river meets the Cái Quanh canal, the course of the ngo boat races at the Ok Om Bok festival.[4]
By 2023 the Wat had had 12 abbots. Đại đức (Venerable) Đinh Hoàng Sự became abbot in 2018 and led a rebuilding in a style that joins Khmer and Thai forms, chosen after consulting the monks and lay followers.[3][2] The sala (meeting hall), begun in October 2016, opened for the Lunar New Year of 2018. A three-story monks' residence followed in 2021, and the main hall, encircled by a pair of neak (serpent) figures nearly 30 m (98 ft) long, was finished at the end of 2024. The abbot's residence was completed early in 2026.[2][5]
A wooden house in the old Khmer style holds what the Wat calls its "voluntary museum": more than 200 objects of everyday Khmer life, such as rice mills, farm tools, fishing gear and bronze ware, and ox and horse carts given by people of the Bảy Núi area. Lay followers donated all of them.[2][5]
Religious life
As of March 2026, Đại đức Đinh Hoàng Sự was the abbot.[2] As of 2023, lay followers came to worship every day, and in greater numbers at festivals and the New Year, and each year the Wat gave hundreds of gift packages of rice, noodles, necessities and cash to families in need in the ward.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ Báo Cần Thơ (Khmer edition), លក្ខណៈពិសេសនៃវត្តពាមបួនថ្មី (November 21, 2022)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Thanh Niên, Ngôi chùa Khmer đẹp như cung điện, có 'bảo tàng tự nguyện' độc nhất miền Tây (March 7, 2026)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Báo Sóc Trăng, Ngôi chùa bên ngã tư Sung Đinh (July 22, 2023)
- ↑ Dân tộc và Phát triển, Những cái mới ở chùa Khmer Peam Buôl Thmây (October 28, 2022)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Giác Ngộ, Ấn tượng với kiến trúc và "bảo tàng tự nguyện" ở chùa Khmer Peam Buôl Thmây (March 7, 2026)