Photo Gallery: Buddhist Worshippers Celebrate Vesak 2022 With $100 Million Temple Expansion

Arlington TX

17 May, 2022

2:24 PM

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By Cristian ArguetaSoto, Fort Worth Report May 16, 2022 Members of the Buddhist Huong Dao Temple, 4717 E. Rosedale St., placed the first stones of the newest 14-acre expansion to the sacred site on May 15. The $100 million expansion consists of 840 stupas, or Buddhist commemorative monuments, that will house the sacred teachings of the Buddha. The texts are the Classical Buddhist Sutras, or the sayings of the Buddha carried down orally after he died and were compiled into collections called sutras. The 840 stupas will serve as places of meditation and store the teachings of the Buddha and the Holy Disciples kept at Pali Tipitaka, the compilation of Buddhist teachings. The Tipitaka will be engraved on stone slabs in Pali Roman and English. The teachings in Sri Lankan, Burmese, Thai, Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese will be engraved on copper, gold and stainless steel. To read the full article, click here. Fort Worth Report is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that produces factual, in-depth journalism about city and county government, schools, healthcare, business, and arts and culture in Tarrant County. Always free to read; subscribe to newsletters, read coverage or support our newsroom at fortworthreport.org.