It features an
eleven-storey brick pagoda, with
a white marble pinnacle of seven towering
and tapering
lotus
flowers, a number reminiscent of those at the
Buddha's
birth (fig.),
and topped by a
calabash,
from which a needle-like spire emerges. It has
niches
at every level and on all sides,
that each houses a marble
Buddha image
(fig.).
When initially constructed, the temple was sited on the
shores of the nearby Red River, outside of the
present-day city dyke and was relocated in 1615 to its
present location on West Lake. |
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Tran Quoc Pagoda |
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