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MOT COT PAGODA - Coggle Diagram
MOT COT PAGODA
HISTORY
One Pillar Pagoda was built in 1049, under King Ly Thai Tong.
According to history books, at the location of One Pillar Pagoda today, there is a stone pillar erected in the middle of a square pond, supporting a jade tower with a statue of Quan Am Buddha.
The Ly dynasty was a very Buddhist dynasty, and its reign is considered the golden age of Buddhism in Vietnamese history.
TIPS FOR VISTING
People can visit One Pillar Pagoda every time during the opening hours. Twice every lunar month, on the first and fifteenth day, the worship ritual will be held at the inner building.
When planning your visit during these occasions, you can observe a common, yet impressive tradition of Vietnamese people: worshipping toward gods and ancestors.
The attraction welcomes visitors from 8:00AM to 6:00PM every day. Local people benefit from free entrance, white foreign tourists pay a pocket fee of VND25,000 ($1) for the ticket.
Like other religious sites, such as temples and pagodas, dress appropriately before entering. This means that your knees and shoulders are covered. For example, on hot days you can bring a sarong that you can wrap around you and easily take off afterwards.
HOW TO GET THERE
One Pillar Pagoda is about 3.5 kilometers from the center of the Old Quarter, where most travelers stay. To travel to the pagoda from here you have several options.
The easiest option is by taxi, which costs around 4 USD. If you are traveling alone, you can also take a motorcycle taxi. A more fun way is by traditional cycle (bicycle taxi). These can be found everywhere in the Old Town but negotiate the price well.
ARCHITECTURE
The structure of the current One Pillar Pagoda includes columns, lotus and roof.
The diameter of the cylinder is 1.2m wide, so it looks as solid as a rock.
At the top of Lien Hoa station is square, 3m long, surrounded by railings and supported by small wooden pillars above large wooden beams that are fastened to stone pillars.
Two stone pillars are overlapped to form a vertical column four meters high, excluding the underwater part.
There is an altar painted with gold and crimson lacquer with cloud motifs, on the top of which is the statue of Quan The Am with thousand eyes and thousand hands gilded.
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many worship items: a pair of ceramic feng shui vases, lotus vases, teapots, copper incense burners.
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Tower roof
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On the roof is the image of a two dragons adoring the moon, a typical architectural feature of Vietnamese pagodas, temples, shrines and communal houses.
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The two dragons lay with their tails facing each other, but bent their heads to the moon in the middle.
The dragons represent yang, while the moon represents yin.