Fo Guang Shan Buddha Museum - Main Hall — Attraction in Kaohsiung

This place is love at first place for someone like me who has been trying to embrace the virtues of Buddhism. The museum is vast, and the facilities are great. My godmother and her family took us out there as our first activity in Kaohsiung. Honestly I believe you would need to spend two days out there to do justice and soak in all the sights. We dined at a vegetarian restaurant in the museum that is owned by the five star Grand Hi Lai hotel. I was simply floored by how good the food was. They even had this really unique dessert in their multi course meal which was a set of black buns filled with delicious hot sesame paste, and painted on that outside with thin gold stripes. I was so stuffed but happy packed some buns to enjoy later. Plenty of opportunity to walk off these calories, touring the vast grounds. There are eight giant pagodas representing the eightfold path toward enlightenment. Next time I will explore these more carefully. My family went into a beautiful worship room that had enormous wood carvings off Buddhist temples around the world. There is touching movie in a theater that is actually in 3D! Exhibits are friendly to tourists with English captions throughout. Will...

I went here without any proper research other than finding this on place on Google maps and thought it'll be good place to spend some time before heading into Kaohsiung. Never did I expect a place as big as this with that much exhibits. I think I spend nearly 4 hours here including the lunch I had at the building at the very back (which was amazing, a rarity in restaurants in museums).

At first, when I walked past the front hall I was skeptic of this place because it was too luxurious with Starbucks and the stone tiling. It resembled more of a entrance to a casino. But once you're through there and into the museum I was amazed by the collection and the idea behind this place. All the staff I encountered here were wonderful as well.

Some might find the museum itself boring, but this place is worth it just to see the giant buddha and the garden. Be prepared to spend a few hours if you want to truly...

This place is massive and I was told by the driver that there are three areas in total and it would take up the whole day to visit. We just went to the museum area and spent a good 3hrs there. Watched a 3D screening on the history of the Buddha and then checked out the Jade Buddha. You have to remove your shoes to view it and no photos are allowed. The top area is where you can view the huge Buddha before walking around to the 4 pagodas at the top. Lots of exhibits to check out and we didn't have time to visit all of them. There was one showing artefacts from the underground palace and the palace is only opened once every 100 years. There is a countdown clock showing we have another 85 years to go, so i guess...