05 January 2011

Malaysia - Pulau Pinang - 3 Jan

At Suffolk House, home of Francis Light, founder of the British-colonised Penang:

The amazing Kek Lok Si temple in Air Itam. The largest Buddhist Temple in Southeast Asia, this sprawls its way up the side of Penang Hill via a series of discrete, but interconnected temples, pavilions and other buildings. Very colourful and bewilderingly ornate...

If the buddha statue is chubby, then it's probably Budai (aka the "laughing buddha") from China, as opposed to the original capital-B Buddha...

Enormous statue of Kuan Yin, another bodhisattva like Budai:

Chinese calendar animals. Anna is Year of the Horse - I am Year of the Goat:

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