Large Buddha stature at The Hall of Ten Thousand Buddhas Encircling Buddha Vairocana with people praying during ceremony, Chua
Chuang-yen Monastery is a Chinese Pure Land Buddhist temple/monastery in Putnam County, New York, near the town of Lake Carmel. Its Great Buddha Hall houses the largest Buddha statue (Vairocana Buddha) in the United States. The complex also includes a major library and research center, primarily for East Asian religious studies. The building is 84 feet tall, contains 24,000 square feet of space and can accommodate 2,000 people in the main hall. Inside the Hall is a 37-foot statue of the Buddha Vairocana - the largest Buddha statue in the Western hemisphere. Encircling the large statue are 10,000 small statues of the Buddha on a lotus terrace.
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