HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Buddhists at Giac Lam Temple, 444 Indian Creek Road in Huntsville, invite others to join them to celebrate the beginning of the Year of the Horse as people in Vietnam ...

The towering stupa at Giac Lam Pagoda. Photo: Ha Nguyen The inner gate at Giac Lam Pagoda. Photo: Ha Nguyen Historical documents held by the temple indicate that Giac Lam was founded in 1744 by a Minh ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – The scent of spicy incense hung low in the air around Giac Lam Temple, the meeting place for members of the North Alabama Universal Buddhist Association in Huntsville ...

Its architecture was also changed after the restoration in 1960, 1969, 1990 and 2003. The temple campus is quite wide, with many ancient towers. Giac Lam is one of the oldest pagodas in Ho Chi Minh ...

The Giac Lam Pagoda, built in 1744, has its tower and main hall decorated with more than 7,000 ceramic plates, a record in Vietnam. Belonging to the Linji school, a branch of Zen Buddhism that ...

In 1981, Vietnam temple was renamed Giac Hoang in honor of King Tran Nhan Ton (1258-1308), who in 1293 renounced his monarchy and became a monk at the Truc Lam temple in Yen Tu Mountain ...

Man Giac came to Los Angeles in 1978 and was appointed abbot of the Vietnamese Buddhist Temple that had been founded two years earlier by his longtime friend and fellow monk Thich Thien-An.

The heart relic of Bodhisattva Thich Quang Duc will be open for public viewing from May 6 to 10 at the Vietnamese National Buddhist Temple in District ... Photo courtesy of Giac Ngo Newspaper ...