Discover a beautiful ancient pagoda in Hanoi: Tay Phuong Pagoda
Located on Tay Phuong mountain, Yen village, Thach Xa commune, Thach That district, Hanoi, Tay Phuong Pagoda (Sung Phuc Tu) is a unique temple with many valuable Buddhist statues. Especially Tay Phuong pagoda is very special with soaring curved corner to attract tourists.
In 1632, in the reign of King Le Than Tong, the temple building 3 spans and harem with 20 corridors.
In 1794, under the Tây Son Dynasty, the pagoda was completely overhauled with the new name of Western Co Tu and the shape of the architecture left as it is today.
The pagoda is built in the Tam-style architecture with three levels along the mountain side, based on the mountain from low to high into three parallel temples including pagodas: Lower Pagoda, Trung Pagoda, Thuong Pagoda. Each court has its own architecture but incorporates a population.
From the foot of the mountain, 239 paved stone beads to the top of the mountain and gate pagoda.
Tay Phuong Pagoda consists of three folds parallel houses: Bai road, main electricity and harem. Each style has two floors of matched roofs, the walls are built entirely of Bat Trang red-hot brick, leaving the ceiling to form a very rough rustic air, the round windows with sharp and no symbols; The wooden columns on the green rock in the lotus carvings.
Tay Phuong Pagoda is very special with soaring curved corner, built in two-layer style, forming a spacious and airy space.
Two-tiered roof tile: the upper part is decorated with leaf shaped leaves, the bottom is square tile painted in five colors as the color of the rope is placed on the rattan wood to make square squeeze regularly.
Around the edge of the roof of the three buildings are exquisite sculpture in the shape of leaf rolls, on the roof of many terracotta rosettes, the tip of the rosette is also terracotta line flowers, leaves, dragon phoenix rich generalization and empathy.
It is also home to the rare masterpieces of religious sculpture including carvings, reliefs and statues.
Around the place where the wood is carved.
Porcelains, antique paintings, bananas, longan leaves ... all have familiar themes of the Vietnamese people such as: strawberry leaves, lotus leaves, chrysanthemum, dragon, phoenix, tiger ...
All of them are very sophisticated created under the hands of talented craftsmen village carpentry in the general area, traditional village of Changshan. The ancient and famous carpentry village of Doai.
In total, there are 72 wooden statues in the form of round statues that are considered the most ancient art in the country. The statues are carved with wood jackfruit lacquer gold.
Many pho are carved higher than real people like 8 statues Diamond and Dharma Protector, about 3 m high, dignified good. Most of these statues are considered as dating back to the late 18th century. Some of the statues were carved in the mid 19th century.
The statues include the three Buddha (past, present, future), statue of the three statues, Tuyet paint depicts the Buddha in the ascetic period. On the sides of the statue, there are A Nan statues and Ca lettuce stands; Maitreya Buddha symbolizes the buddha of the future ecstatic world, the fat man sits slightly backwards, the whole body exudes joy, quantity; Van Thu Bodhisattva statue; the universal statue of the Bodhisattva; Diamond Cup Set ...
In particular, there are 16 large Arhat statues of real people in different positions on both sides of the upper wall. Like the poet Huy described, each one is a pain, gesture, and individual expression of the different characters are quite lively and rare in ancient sculpture art.
Tay Phuong Pagoda with the most typical Arhat statue of Vietnamese sculpture of the 18th century is a typical religious work typical of Vietnamese art in the post Le.
Every year the Tay Phuong Pagoda celebrates the festival on the 6th of the third lunar month.
This is an opportunity for visitors to visit the temple, visit the magnificent works of art and splendor of the land of the ancient Doai.
You will feel relieved, temporarily away from the noisy, bon chen of life outside ....
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