A nearly 5-acre estate in Bridgehampton, New York, featuring a replica of a 15th-century Buddhist temple has been listed for $7.5 million, Mansion Global reported.
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Manhattan gastroenterologist and entrepreneur Dr Roshini Raj bought the property in 2022 for $3.95 million and later spent about $3 million on changes to the estate.
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The property was listed on September 24, according to Mansion Global.
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The estate was created on vacant land by a previous owner in 2002.
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The owner turned the site into a weekend and holiday property for his family, using East Asian design influences.
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The compound was built around a replica Buddhist temple modelled after temples at the Summer Palace in Beijing.
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The property now includes a roughly 7,800-square-foot main house with seven bedrooms, seven bathrooms and five half bathrooms.
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It also has a four-car attached garage, a sauna, a gym and a wine cellar.
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The grounds include a lagoon-style pool and spa, koi ponds, orchards, water features, ornamental bridges and pathways.
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The estate was also designed according to the principles of feng shui.
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Its gardens contain statues collected from different parts of the world, mature specimen plants and several water features.
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The Buddhist temple is one of the most distinctive parts of the property, with 500-year-old doors and walls covered with murals.
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A private estate with a temple
Mala Sander of the Corcoran Group, who listed the property, described the estate as highly private because it sits on a little-known street.
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She also pointed to the size of the property, noting that most lots in Bridgehampton are only about one to one-and-a-half acres.
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“It’s insanely private,” Sander said as quoted by Mansion Global.
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“It’s on a very little-known street, so nobody knows where you are.
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And it’s large- most of the lots in Bridgehampton are only one to one-and-a-half acres.”
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The grounds were designed to create different spaces around the property rather than one open garden.
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They include meandering paths, ornamental bridges, koi ponds, orchards and mature plants.
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The estate also has a lagoon-style pool and spa.
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“The gardens are gorgeous,” Sander said, adding that she knows of no other property in Bridgehampton that has a temple.
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“The plants are really beautifully curated, but they don’t need a lot of tending and upkeep.”
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Raj made several changes after buying the estate.
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One of them was the conversion of the home's sunroom into a room she called the “jungalow”.
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The room has an animal-print theme and connects to the dining room through a traditional moon gate that resembles a garden trellis.
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Raj said the design was inspired by colonial clubs she had seen in Sri Lanka.
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The changes were part of the wider work she carried out after purchasing the property.
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Mansion Global reported that she spent about a year and a half making decorative changes to the estate.
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The Buddhist temple is one of the most distinctive parts of the property, with 500-year-old doors and walls covered with murals.
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Temple used for meditation and yoga
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The Buddhist temple has a specific role in Raj’s use of the property.
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She uses the space as a meditation room and yoga studio.
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Its circular walls are covered with murals, adding to the East Asian design of the building.
Raj said the combination of the temple, gardens and water features gives the estate a sense of calm. “The magic of this property is that from the moment you enter the gates, you are transported to what feels like a private sanctuary,” Raj said.
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“The gardens, koi ponds and temple create a spiritual sense of calm that is irreplaceable.
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The property has also been used for large gatherings.
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Raj said the estate became especially useful when she hosted a party marking the 10th anniversary of Tula Skincare, the company she co-founded.
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“There were massages in the tea house, yoga and meditation classes in the temple, a lunch in the apricot orchard and dinner on the front lawn,” she said.
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“It was amazing to see how the different spaces could be used to create different moments of peace and celebration.”
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Why Raj is selling the estate
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Raj is now putting the Bridgehampton property on the market as her youngest child is expected to leave for college in less than a year.
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…and 3 more, not listed.
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