One Pillar Pagoda

The One Pillar Pagoda is a historic Buddhist temple in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. It is seemed alongside the Perfume Temple, as one among Vietnam's two maximum iconic temples. The temple become built by means of Emperor Ly Thai Tông, who ruled from 1028 to 1054. According to the court facts, Ly Thai Tông was childless and dreamt that he met the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, who passed him a toddler son even as seated on a lotus flower. Ly Thai Tong then married a peasant woman that he had met and she bore him a son.

The emperor constructed the temple in gratitude for this in 1049, having been advised with the aid of a monk named Thien Tue to construct the temple, by way of erecting a pillar inside the center of a lotus pond, similar to the only he saw in the dream. The temple changed into placed in what become then the Tay Cam Garden in Th?ch Bao, V?nh Thu?n district in the capital Thang Long. Before the pagoda become opened, prayers have been held for the durability of the monarch.