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| ENTRANCING: Vuthol Sieng says the archway planned for Parafield Garden’s Khmer Buddhist Association will be similar to those in Cambodia. |
26 Apr 11
By Katelin Nelligan
News Review Messenger (Australia)
A GIANT Buddha statue is planned for a 10m-high entrance to Parafield Garden’s Khmer Buddhist Association.
The association has lodged plans with Salisbury Council for the elaborate archway at its Salisbury Hwy base.
The plans are out for public consultation until Monday, May 2.
The archway would include figures of elephants topped by a four-faced Buddha statue, similar to those found on many Cambodian temples.
Monk Vuthol Sieng said the archway was similar to those seen in Ta Prohm, a Buddhist temple in north-east Cambodia which was built between the 12th and 13th centuries and featured in the film Tomb Raider.
“The four-faced Buddha represents compassion, mercy, sincerity and happiness,” he said.
“It helps to make your heart ready to enter the temple and it clears the mind.”
Association president Anh Oan said the archway was important as it symbolised the Cambodian community’s culture.
“It is very important to us to remind our children about where we have come from and what temples in Cambodia are like,” he said.
“We think it is something the community will be proud of and it will make the temple more prominent.”
Salisbury development services director Greg Waller said the archway would be assessed by the council’s Development Assessment Panel if any representations from the community were received.
Otherwise it would be assessed by council planning staff, he said.
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