The first and second floors contain meditation halls for the monks.
The large meditation hall at the center of the temple complex is now an art gallery containing modern Chinese oil paintings.
It was like a meditation hall, it was that quiet.
At its centre is a circular meditation hall, 280 feet in diameter, which has a seating capacity of 8,000.
After the death of the Emperor a meditation hall was built on his tomb.
Their position is considered most desirable to hold in the meditation hall.
Administrative offices and the meditation hall occupy the center of the building.
Moments later, 30 of us are shuffling into the great meditation hall for our first zazen session.
Cittaviveka will in the future establish a new sīma inside its main meditation hall.
Others were large enough to contain complete meditation halls.