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The outdoor temple is for burning incense because indoors it gets all over everything. Sophia Sour explains that “it’s a place you can actually go and ask for wishes or where…good deeds come to you.”

The outdoor temple of the Watt. In the foreground the Buddha statue is has the Bhumisparsha mudra, or the earth touching or earth witness mudra. This mudra, formed with all five fingers of the right hand extended to touch the ground, symbolizes the…

All of the sold statues and painted Buddha statues are neatly placed on pyramidal stands, lit up by the same multicolor LED lights that pervade the rest of the stupa.

Painted Buddhas in various mudras and configurations adorn the ledges of the lower level of the stuppa, illuminated by colored LED lights.

5000 buddhas, all with the names of different donors ($200 donation per buddha) will eventually line the floors and walls of the lower and upper levels of the stupa.

Two men, a monk and a volunteer, carefully slather gold paint onto the miniature statues of the Buddha.

Large plaque in the main temple outdoor area with portions of the Pali Canon. The particular portion on the plaque in the main courtyard of the Watt is the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, or The Discourse on Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in motion. The…

A monk sprays perfume on statues of the Buddha during a celebration of Visakha Puja at Watt Munisotaram in 2016.

A drawing of what the completed Stupa would look like.