Visiting over 600-year old Tao Sach pagoda in Hanoi

Known by the courtesy name Linh Son pagoda, Tao Sach pagoda is located at No. 386 Lac Long Quan street, Nhat Tan ward, Tay Ho district of Hanoi (Photo: Vietnam+)

It is a pagoda of Tao Dong Buddhist sect which founder was monk Thuy Nguyet in the 16th century (Photo: Vietnam+)

The pagoda was classified as a historical relic site (Photo: Vietnam+)

Its history was related to Prince Uy Linh Lang, the seventh son of King Monk Tran Nhan Tong (Photo: Vietnam+)

Apart from worshiping the Buddha, Tao Sach pagoda is also the head office of Hoa Nghiem, a Buddhist charitable association (Photo: Vietnam+)

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Tao Sach pagoda is one of the ancient pagodas in Hanoi that still retain the old beauty (Photo:Vietnam+)

The pagoda's architecture follows the traditional pattern of three-arch gate, bell tower, the multi-chamber layout consisting of ceremonial chamber, contemplation chamber, the Mother Goddess-worshipping chamber and Guanyin-worshipping hall (Photo: Vietnam+)

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Tomb towers were built opposite the gardern (Photo:Vietnam+)

From afar, visitors can see the three-storey bell tower (Photo: Vietnam+)

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Statutes of Guanyin were built to the left of the front hall (Photo:Vietnam+)

The pagoda preserves many valuable documents in Chinese-transcribed Vietnamese and relics of high art such as 42 parallel sentences (39 parallel sentences in Chinese, 3 parallel sentences in Chinese-transcribed Vietnamese); 23 horizontal lacquered boards; 2 bells, one of which casted in the 3rd year of Minh Mang era (1822) (Photo: Vietnam+)

The pagoda is housing 29 epitaphs, of which 12 erected in the 16th year of Bao Dai era (1941), especially the stele "Linh Son tu ki niem bi ki" (recording the memories of Linh Son pagoda) carved with the pattern of "two dragons flanking a moon" on the top and eye-catching decorative designs around the edging; more than 40 statues of Buddha, Mother Goddesses, which most of them bear the art style in the 19th - 20th centuries, 3 statues of "Tam The" made in the late 18th century (Photo: Vietnam+)

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In 1993, the pagoda was recognized as national historical-cultural monument (Photo: Vietnam+)

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Tao Sach pagoda is one of the ancient pagodas in Hanoi that still retain the old and dignified beauty of Buddhism, attracting many tourists and pupils to visit and read books (Photo: Vietnam+)

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