About 80 kilometers from Ho Chi Minh City off National Highway No.51, Thi Vai Mountain is nestled in Phu My Town, Tan Thanh District, Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province. This place is a focus for Buddhist monks, nuns and tourists with its ancient pagodas to see along the way while they coming to the mountain and trekking to the top.
Linh Buu Pagoda at Van Hang Road
On the way from HCMC to Thi Vai Mountain, visitors will pass Van Hanh Road, about 3.5km long, where they can discover hundreds of pagodas, Zen monasteries, and Buddhist temples with various and unique architectural styles along it. Long time ago, Van Hanh was a small hamlet with dozens of inhabitants. Gradually, one pagoda then two and three and dozens of pagodas with southern architecture styles were built up over the years. It was said that these pagodas were built in around 1976. A few pagodas were moved there from Da Lat. Most pagodas on Van Hanh have spacious gardens where vegetables and fruits are grown all year.
Van Hanh links to Thi Vai Mountain, where many pagodas have been built up on the mountain. Of which, there are three main pagodas, namely Lien Tri Pagoda (Foot Pagoda), Hong Phuc Pagoda (Central Pagoda) and Linh Son Buu Thien Pagoda
From Lien Tri Pagoda, worshippers and tourists have to climb 1,340 stone steps to Linh Son Buu Thien Pagoda. The pagoda’s name, Linh Son Buu Thien originates from a historical story in Gia Dinh Thanh Thong Chi , a geographic and historical book about the south of Viet Nam written by Trinh Hoai Duc in the early of the 19th century, saying that nun Dieu Hanh was the first person who led her life for Buddha on this mountain and who rescued Nguyen Phuc Anh from the |
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