Go to the sacred land of Yen Tu

Coming to Yen Tu, visitors will have the feeling of being lost in a fairy tale land with myths and legends about the king turning into Buddha.

Coming to Yen Tu, visitors will have the feeling of being lost in a fairy tale land with myths and legends about the king turning into Buddha.

Yen Tu has long been considered the spiritual origin of many generations of the Vietnamese people. Our folk still pass down the folk song: "After hundreds of years of accumulating virtue and practice, we have not yet returned to Yen Tu and have not yet attained the fruit of practice."

The famous Yen Tu mountain is associated with the name and extraordinary career of Emperor Tran Nhan Tong. After twice leading Dai Viet's army and people to successfully fight against the Yuan-Mongol invaders (in 1285 and 1288), he passed the throne to his son, giving up his mansion and jade palace to return to this desolate place to practice. Buddha's enlightenment.

He founded and became the first founder of the Truc Lam Zen sect - a Zen sect with strong Vietnamese identity, with the desire to build a happy and good nation. Since then, Yen Tu has become the birthplace of the Truc Lam Zen sect and is considered a Buddhist holy land in Vietnam since the Dai Viet period.

Yen Tu has a special attraction for domestic and foreign tourists, especially Buddhists around the world.

Yen Tu is by default the Buddhist "capital" of Vietnam. Millions of tourists make pilgrimages to Yen Tu every year.

During 10 years (2005-2015), Yen Tu received strong investment in connection infrastructure as well as each highlight project. In 2006, Dong Pagoda was officially restored with materials entirely made of copper, replacing the previously temporary copper-reinforced concrete pagoda...

In 2011, Yen Tu National Forest was established and implemented forest protection and development projects. In 2012, Yen Tu was recognized by the Prime Minister as a special national monument. In 2013, a great statue of Buddha Emperor Tran Nhan Tong was erected on An Ky Sinh peak... These are important milestones for the relics, landscapes and Yen Tu national forest to be cleared and stand out in the large heritage system. of the entire country.

Through many events and ups and downs of history, today the remaining relics in Yen Tu are 11 pagodas and hundreds of temples, towers, steles, and statues that fully converge many architectural and sculptural styles of different periods. modern, expressing the long-standing material and spiritual values ​​of the Vietnamese people. Perhaps this is a unique attraction that not every tourist destination has.

Coming to Yen Tu, visitors will have the feeling of being lost in a fairy tale land with myths and legends about the king turning into Buddha, about the sacred land of Yen Tu with valuable works such as Dong Pagoda, Hoang Tran Buddha statue. Nhan Tong... The cultural values ​​of Truc Lam Buddhism have since been inherited by many successive generations, increasingly developing and spreading to many regions and regions throughout the country and many other countries around the world. Until today.

Located right at the foot of Yen Tu mountain, Truc Lam Cultural Center includes architectural works inspired by Tran dynasty architecture and the ideology of the Truc Lam Yen Tu Zen sect, creating a tourist destination that brings rich in Vietnamese history and culture.

The inauguration of Dong Pagoda after 360 days of construction on the mountain has created a new image for Yen Tu, where there is a real bronze pagoda, from which the belief about a sacred land that our ancestors chose. , built and preserved more than 700 years ago is even more affirmed. The Dong Pagoda project in Yen Tu has also created many records: It is the largest bronze pagoda in Vietnam, the pagoda is located at the highest altitude in Vietnam...

In addition to being called "the cradle of Vietnamese Buddhism", Yen Tu also attracts tourists because of its fairyland-like beauty. The wild and majestic natural landscape of Yen Tu national forest further enhances the sacredness of the land of Buddha, and is a great potential for the development of spiritual and ecological tourism in Quang Ninh province.

Yoga performance on Yen Tu mountain

With an altitude of 1,068m above sea level, visitors can admire the scenery of clouds covering the white sky when coming to Yen Tu. Throughout the journey up the mountain to worship Buddha, visitors will be immersed in the scenery of clouds, sky, nature, and plants like a watercolor painting. It is the Giai Oan stream with water flowing all year round at the foot of the mountain, the ancient larch path quiet under the sacred forest, the mossy steps tinged with time, the pagoda roofs hidden among the white clouds of thousands of years, the miracle The grandeur of the mountains overlaps....

The ancient Tung Street is hundreds of years old.

In 2006, Dong Pagoda was officially restored with materials entirely made of copper, replacing the previously temporary copper-reinforced concrete pagoda...

Dong Pagoda at night is sparklingly beautiful

The number of tourists coming to Yen Tu is always in 7 digits, with an average of about 1.5 million people per year, hundreds of times more than in 1992 and several dozen times more than in 2000.

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Update day : 09/10/2023