QUYNH LAM PAGODA TOURIST POINT
QUYNH LAM PAGODA TOURIST POINT
QUYNH LAM PAGODA TOURIST POINT
QUYNH LAM PAGODA TOURIST POINT
QUYNH LAM PAGODA TOURIST POINT
QUYNH LAM PAGODA TOURIST POINT
QUYNH LAM PAGODA TOURIST POINT
QUYNH LAM PAGODA TOURIST POINT
QUYNH LAM PAGODA TOURIST POINT
QUYNH LAM PAGODA TOURIST POINT
QUYNH LAM PAGODA TOURIST POINT
QUYNH LAM PAGODA TOURIST POINT
QUYNH LAM PAGODA TOURIST POINT
QUYNH LAM PAGODA TOURIST POINT
QUYNH LAM PAGODA TOURIST POINT
QUYNH LAM PAGODA TOURIST POINT
QUYNH LAM PAGODA TOURIST POINT
QUYNH LAM PAGODA TOURIST POINT
QUYNH LAM PAGODA TOURIST POINT
QUYNH LAM PAGODA TOURIST POINT
QUYNH LAM PAGODA TOURIST POINT
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Quynh Lam Pagoda        Quynh Lam pagoda is located in the center of three hamlets of Thuong, Ha and Sinh in Trang An commune, Dong Trieu town, Quang Ninh province (formerly Ha Loi commune, Dong Trieu district, Kinh Mon district, Hai Duong province). Built on a gentle hill called Tien Du mountain, located in the hillside system running from Yen Tu and Ngoa Van mountains to the plain. The pagoda was built on the land of "Painting knee, foot pedaling the water" that folk still call the land of "dragon adoring, tiger bowing" in front with a large lake, four corners of the pagoda with four high mounds. four dragon eyes".        Quynh Lam Pagoda was built in the Ly Dynasty by Zen master Khong Lo (Nguyen Minh Khong). At Quynh Lam pagoda, Zen master Khong Lo cast a bronze statue of Maitreya Buddha 6 feet 6 meters high (about 20 meters). This Maitreya statue is classified as "An Nam Four Great Air" (four great treasures of Vietnam, including: Bao Thien tower, Quy Dien bell, Pho Minh cauldron and Maitreya statue in Quynh Lam pagoda). According to the theory, when casting a giant statue at Quynh Lam pagoda, ... View more

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Quynh Lam Pagoda
       Quynh Lam pagoda is located in the center of three hamlets of Thuong, Ha and Sinh in Trang An commune, Dong Trieu town, Quang Ninh province (formerly Ha Loi commune, Dong Trieu district, Kinh Mon district, Hai Duong province). Built on a gentle hill called Tien Du mountain, located in the hillside system running from Yen Tu and Ngoa Van mountains to the plain. The pagoda was built on the land of "Painting knee, foot pedaling the water" that folk still call the land of "dragon adoring, tiger bowing" in front with a large lake, four corners of the pagoda with four high mounds. four dragon eyes".
       Quynh Lam Pagoda was built in the Ly Dynasty by Zen master Khong Lo (Nguyen Minh Khong). At Quynh Lam pagoda, Zen master Khong Lo cast a bronze statue of Maitreya Buddha 6 feet 6 meters high (about 20 meters). This Maitreya statue is classified as "An Nam Four Great Air" (four great treasures of Vietnam, including: Bao Thien tower, Quy Dien bell, Pho Minh cauldron and Maitreya statue in Quynh Lam pagoda). According to the theory, when casting a giant statue at Quynh Lam pagoda, monk Khong Lo collected bronze from China and brought it back to the country for casting.The statue was so big that people had to build a palace 7 zhang (23.5m) high. Because of such a large size, according to tradition, standing in the south of Dong Trieu district, 10 miles from Quynh Lam, you can still see the electric roof covering the statue's head, in folklore there is a saying:
"The fame of Quynh Lam in the East
Who passed by and stood and looked
Cloudy nine-wave high tower
The pagoda has a hundred rooms to guard the pink horse
In front of the electricity ringing with the structure
In the am Khanh stone with bronze bells
It's fun, isn't it fun to practice Buddhism?"
       It is not clear when the statue died, according to the following theories: It was possible that the statue was lost when the Ming army invaded our country with 3 large metals. The second theory is that the statue died after the Mongols invaded our country because then the monk Phap Loa (the second ancestor of the Truc Lam Zen sect) had the same large statue of Maitreya cast. The statue was finished casting in 1327, in 1328 on the occasion of King Tran Minh Tong's visit to the temple, Phap Loa asked the king's permission to pull the statue from the palace to Bao Tu and gilded the statue. Also on this occasion, Van Hien Vuong Tran Quang Trieu - the marshal of Bich Dong Thi commune and his sister, Princess Thuong Tran - the wife of King Tran Anh Tong donated 900 taels of gold to the temple to cast the statue. The statue was also lost in the 15th century when the Ming army invaded our country, they destroyed the statue to cast guns.

In addition to the statue of Maitreya, Zen master Khong Lo also made a large stone stele 2.5m high, 1.5m wide, 0.25m thick, with a soft, winding dragon pattern... However, it was not until the 14th century. With the activities of Zen Master Phap Loa, the second ancestor of Truc Lam Zen Sect, in December 1317, Zen Master Phap Loa built and established Quynh Lam Institute with massive architecture and completed the real Quynh Lam Pagoda. became the most important Buddhist center of our country at that time. In 1329, Zen master Phap Loa brought a part of the ashes of the King - Buddha Emperor Tran Nhan Tong to put in a stone tower at Quynh Lam pagoda.
       In the 16th - 18th centuries, Quynh Lam Pagoda became the largest Buddhist center in Vietnam, a place to transmit sutras, preach and train monks for Buddhism. Over nearly a thousand years of history, Quynh Lam Pagoda has so far become a cultural symbol of the nation, a place to store many precious artifacts such as a large stone stele of the Ly dynasty, a stone altar, a bronze bell, etc. especially the tower garden.
       When visitors come to Quynh Lam pagoda, they will see the tower garden on the right in front of the temple entrance. Quynh Lam Pagoda is famous for its towers such as: In 1329, a part of the ashes of Emperor Tran Nhan Tong (the first ancestor of Truc Lam Zen sect) was brought to Quynh Lam Pagoda to be placed in a stone tower (2 towers) It has been lost for a long time, but only a part of the top of the pyramid is preserved).
  In 1727, the temple built the Tich Quang tower, this architectural work was built to commemorate the monk Tue Dang righteous enlightenment Chan Nguyen Zen master, whose name is Nang Nghiem - a man of great merit in the Zen world at that time. . During his time as abbot at Quynh Lam pagoda, he had the merit of repairing, casting bells, sculpting statues and printing many Buddhist scriptures for the temple. Especially in the 5th year of Chinh Hoa, he built a large building of the Nine Products.
Today, although the building is no longer available, the stone tower is still intact, the tower consists of 7 floors with square ground and over 10m high. The bottom edge of the tower is 2.7m long, the higher it goes, the smaller it gets. The tower has a simple structure, little decoration, and it is worth noting that the tower is grafted from green rocks without lime mortar texture. Like many contemporaneous stone towers, the Tich Quang tower is sealed on all floors, leaving only the 3rd floor as a rolling door, and the hollow inside is used to make incense for the Zen master. Decoration on the tower is also very simple. The dragon carved on the tower looks fierce and is carved on 4 sides on the top floor, the other floors are carved with nothing but large kanji.
There are also other small towers erected to commemorate the monks and nuns who have had merit in abboting the pagoda such as Tinh Minh tower (1822), Tuong Quang tower (1854), Tue Quang tower (1878), and Tue Quang tower. Dieu Quang and the tower have a hexagonal cross-section of unknown names, dates... These towers are all in the style of the Nguyen Dynasty, simple and small.

Right at the entrance to the temple, in front of the tower garden, you can immediately see a stele house with a stele of the Ly Dynasty. Bringing a special value not only identifies the traces of the temple but also closely related to many historical and religious issues. However, over time, this stele has been worn out and restored, making the traces of art on the stele contain many different dates and styles. However, it still carries the style of the Ly dynasty through the image of worm dragons bordering the beer, dragons in diagonal squares on both sides, on the forehead and frill around the beer.
Right on the steps to the steeple, you will see 2 stone dragons.
The railing at the edge of the old platform is carved into the shape of a large dragon, 3.25m long; 1.1m high and 0.46m thick. The carved dragon has a fierce shape, a big head with horns, round eyes, eyelids with many long rays covering the outside, a wide mouth opening wide to reveal many sharp teeth, the dragon's body is not curled but only curved like a baby's back. unicorns, unicorns erected with many pointed fins, decorated around the dragon's body are twisted, fiery, highly stylized clouds. The entire dragon image evokes a sense of pomp and majesty, in the style of early 18th century court art, an artistic period that tended to be strict, non-aggressive and foreign.
Behind the steeple, right to the left, you will find a stele carved with a tablet and a statue of the late Buddha Bui Thi Thao, who donated 30 yuan and 2 bottles of wine to the temple, so the people in the temple donated money. The area is worshiped as a post-Buddhist and sculpted to worship and record merits. The stone stele carved with the tablet has a narrow shape, the higher it goes, the thinner it becomes in the style of "upper-autumn-low-challenge". The beer forehead is curved and the base is square and high. The middle of the stele is embossed with tablet images and decorated a lot around. The stele's forehead is shaped like two dragons adoring the sun, while the two sides are carved with two meandering dragons. main dial in tiger style. Especially the bottom of the base is carved with an animal shape with a bent shape, the hind legs kneel, the head is raised, the whole composition in a very beautiful posture.

As for the stele carved with the image of the queen Buddha, it is simpler, the stele has the shape of a spire, without decoration, in the middle emerges a picture of a woman sitting in a posture of chanting, her face contemplative, her hands in front of her stomach. , her eyes are dim, her head is tied with a long scarf..this is the image of a pious woman, her face is dignified but still hides a secret sadness. With these two artifacts, we can understand more about the beauty of the late seventeenth century art. In addition, around the pagoda, there are also rocks, pillars, stone sides, patios, architectural foundations, paths, bricks, leaf-shaped tiles, lotus petals, foreign objects, crockery, porcelain and other objects. Architectural materials….the Tran Dynasty helps us visualize the shape of Quynh Lam Pagoda.
       Next to the steeple is the main hall, like the main hall of the temples following the Truc Lam sect, the temple of Quynh Lam pagoda is arranged outside the statue of Buddha Emperor Tran Nhan Tong entering nirvana, followed by the layers. Traditional statues such as Shakyamuni Buddha, two sides are the venerable Kassapa and Anan, Amitabha Buddha, two sides are Bodhisattva Dai The Chi and Bodhisattva Quan Them, the top layer of statues is Tam The Buddha. Two compartments on both sides of the main shrine worshiping Monsignor and the three Holy Mothers. Following the main hall is Tam To Truc Lam church, in the middle is the statue of the first Patriarch Tran Nhan Tong - the founder of Truc Lam Zen sect, on the right is a statue of Tam To Truc Lam II - Phap Loa and on the left is worshiping the statue of Truc Lam De Tam - Huyen Quang. The statues have a graceful sitting posture but still contain dignified lines, containing hidden sadness.
Besides the religious architecture, according to history books also recorded at the beginning of the 14th century, Quynh Lam Pagoda had a Bich Dong poetry festival founded by Van Hue Vuong Tran Quang Trieu, this is one of the earliest poetry festivals of Vietnamese feudal poetry. The poetry commune was established in Am Bich Dong, right next to Quynh Lam pagoda and it was the appearance of the commune that made Quynh Lam even more famous near and far. The poetry society has gathered a number of famous poets of the Tran Dynasty with members still known today: Tran Quang Trieu, Nguyen Suong, Nguyen Uc and Nguyen Trung Ngan. The birth of Bich Dong Thi Commune is an important step in the historical development of our country's literature in the early 14th century.

Over time, the historical ups and downs of the ancient works of Quynh Lam Pagoda were almost destroyed a lot. Under the Nguyen Dynasty in 1820, the court restored and embellished the pagoda, during this time also cast a large bell (big bell) which is still in the temple today. In the Thieu Tri Dynasty (1840 - 1847), the temple was burned down by the main hall and the front hall, then rebuilt again, this time of repair and rebuilding, the pagoda basically kept the structure of the previous one, the wall was rebuilt according to the technique. In the narrative technique, the Later Duong section is divided into many different spaces. Although the scale may be reduced compared to before, Quynh Lam Pagoda is still a large pagoda with hundreds of compartments. In 1910, the fire continued to burn down the entire house, steeple, drum, ... people again contributed to rebuilding the pagoda. In 1947, the French colonialists bombed and destroyed the temple completely. pagoda.
       In 1997, Dong Trieu District People's Committee mobilized resources, restored and embellished Quynh Lam Pagoda, the work was completed Truc Lam Palace, Chuong Tower, Stele House as it is today.
       In order to restore the Quynh Lam Buddhist center to its historical value, over the years, with the attention of the People's Committee of Quang Ninh province, the People's Committee of Dong Trieu district has coordinated with the Institute of Archeology to excavate and research the relics. , the results found architectural traces of many periods from the Tran Dynasty to the Nguyen Dynasty, especially discovered and clarified the architectural plan structure of the Le Trung Hung period in the 18th century. April 9, 2016 On the 3rd day of the third lunar month of the year of the Monkey, the right day of the cavalry of the second Patriarch Phap Loa, the government, people and Buddhists from all over the world started to rebuild Quynh Lam according to the architectural structure of the Le Trung Hung period, which has been arched by archeology. study and clarify, the construction works in 1997 will be downgraded.
The restoration work of Quynh Lam pagoda is expected to include the following items: The central architecture includes the Front Street, the Middle Street, the Back Street and the corridor with a total construction area of 3,720 m2; Tam Quan construction area 95m2; Beer house area 31m2; Exhibition house area 120 m2; auxiliary works, garden system and synchronous technical infrastructure items.
After more than four years of construction, investment and renovation, the work items have basically completed the first phase of the project with a total investment of about 70 billion dong so far. In which, there are works items: electricity, middle power, upper power, garden, tower garden with a budget of more than 60 billion VND; The interior system of dharma statues, diaphragms, couplets, hammock doors, altars, worshiping objects, etc., along with the parking area, the assembly yard, auxiliary works, planting trees to create a bronze landscape, especially the jade statue. Shakyamuni was provided by Vingroup to enter the upper hall. Quynh Lam Pagoda was officially inaugurated on 12/12/2020.

Experiencing the ups and downs of history, the ancient works of Quynh Lam Pagoda were mostly destroyed, but the festival of Quynh Lam Pagoda always has an important meaning, deeply ingrained in the minds of generations of Dong Trieu people. as well as tourists from all over the world.
       The annual Quynh Lam Pagoda Festival is held from the 1st to the 4th of February (lunar calendar) every year. Opening the festival is a procession, offering incense to the Buddha, next to the procession is a temple festival with unique cultural features, art programs such as singing contests for chau van, cheo, cai luong, etc. many unique folk games such as pounding the pot, catching ducks blindfolded, etc., especially the traditional boat race of the Quynh Lam pagoda festival, is cheered by people and tourists from all over the world.
       It can be said that Quynh Lam pagoda festival is the harmony between religious traditions, specifically Buddhism here, with Vietnamese national cultural traditions that are still preserved to this day.

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