Chua Dien Huu Pagoda

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Chua Dien Huu pagoda was built in 1049 at the same time as the One Pillar Pagoda which shares the complex. It is a small temple with a courtyard and single building holding several shrines. In the center of the courtyard is the statue of Quan Am, a saint in the Buddhist religion who is associated with the virtue of compassion.

The adjoining One Pillar Pagoda was built at the request of King Ly Thai Tong who dreamed the Buddha Quan Am gave him a baby son while sitting on a lotus flower. It was destroyed in 1954 at the end of the First Indochina War. The Ministry of Culture restored the pagoda in 1955.

During the Ly dynasty, the temple was the site of an annual royal ceremony on the birthday of Gautama Buddha. It attracted monks and laymen alike to the ceremony where the monarch would then free a bird.

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