Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Temple WA — Attraction in Maylands

What a joke. I have been meditating for years by myself just using apps, I decided I wanted something more authentic, so I paid $50 to do the meditation retreat day at this temple. I will say, it is a beautiful temple, I felt I had come to the right place. But what do we do? We sit around someone's phone listening to an app instructing us to meditate. You're telling me none of the monks actually instruct participants ever? Also they provided a meal and said they would take our food allergies into account. No, we were given all identical foods and when a monk asked me why I wasn't eating, I told her I was allergic to everything on the plate. She walked away, I assumed to get help. No, she had returned to her lunch. I just had to sit...

As Buddha would say, pray in your heart sicerely and chant happily. Buddha don't care about your offering or money. Buddha wants you to live happily, content and compassionate in life. Some of the followers disciples are too commercialised thus making the faith looks greedy but in all honesty most faith rely on donations and merchandise to keep going and make money. Go there, pray to your hearts content, drop your ego and disregard what the followers says and leave fully blessed. You are there to chat to...

Beautiful temple, both inside and out, very well maintained by the temples monks. Temple is very inviting.

Beautiful traditional Buddhist atmosphere, great location however parking can be difficult if there is an event on.

Don’t read too much into me not giving the fifth star. It’s a personal preference because I don’t particularly like being incessantly asked to donate for name plates, buy flowers or buy other items. People will contribute more willingly if there was a more...