![]() ![]() sfn error: no target: CITEREFIncFodor's2012 ( help) ^ a b "Heart of Hanoi beating strong".^ "Thiền sư TỪ ĐẠO HẠNH và văn khắc chuông chùa Thiên Phúc" (in Vietnamese).sfn error: no target: CITEREFRutherford2002 ( help) sfn error: no target: CITEREFDrummondThomas2003 ( help) sfn error: no target: CITEREFDoddLewis2003 ( help) ^ a b c d e f g Dodd & Lewis 2003, p. 408.ĭuring other festivals held here, poems written by Từ Đạo Hạnh and Emperor Lý Nhân Tông are recited. The sandalwood statue of the master, located in the temple, is moved with intertwined strings during the puppet festival. Participants in the festivities come from four villages. A pageant of tableaux are also taken out on the occasion. During the festival puppet groups present water puppetry stage shows at the open air theater in the lake. It is held from the 5th to 7th days of the third Lunar month. Festival Ī colourful festival, known as the Thầy temple festival, is held in honour of the monk Từ Đạo Hạnh. There is also a limestone grotto known as the hang Cắc Cớ, "the Mischievous". Both these are religious places from where there are lovely vistas of the entire valley. This cave is located in the middle of roots of banyans and is hemmed between a small temple built in honour of the monk's parents and a small temple. Đạo Hạnh, during the last stage of his life, had walked up to this place and disappeared in a cave. The second bridge leads to a limestone hill. One of these bridges leads to a small island, home to a small Taoist temple representing the elements of earth, air, and water. Built in 1602, they are named Sun and Moon. There are two arched bridges connecting to the temple. ![]() It was founded by Emperor Lý Thái Tổ in 1132 and has been renovated several times. Within the same temple complex there is a small shrine referred to as the "old temple" ( Vietnamese: chùa cũ). The statues of Từ Đạo Hạnh and his reincarnation in the form of Lý Thánh Tông are located in the hall next to each other. It was made in the likeness of the master Đạo Hạnh in a pensive mood. There is a 13th-century statue of a bodhisattva seated on a lotus throne, which is a wooden statue draped in yellow. The main hall contains the temple's oldest image, dating from the temple's foundation: a triptych of Buddha and disciples dating from the 16th century on a high pedestal. At the entrance to the shrine there are two large clay mixed papier-mâché images of the 7th century, each weighing about a ton these are considered the largest such images in Vietnam. The main prayer hall of the temple has nearly 100 colourful images of different period. It is built in a typical Vietnamese architectural style. The temple has three dedications: to Emperor Lý Thần Tông (1127 to 1138), to Gautama Buddha and his eighteen arhats and to the Buddhist monk and Thiền master Từ Đạo Hạnh. The temple has been refurbished many times. The back chamber has statues of the monk. The middle chamber has images of Buddhas surrounded by demons, made of lacquer and garbed in red-coloured attire. He created his own brand of Từ Đạo Hạnh cult. According to the local belief he had incarnated thrice, once as Buddha in the form of Sakhyamuni, then as the son of King Lý Nhân Tông who later became the King Lý Thần Tông and then as a monk who saved the King Thần Tông also. He presented water puppetry (which is unique to Vietnam) at the small lake pavilion which he built in the middle of the lake, in front of the main hall. The mystic acts associated with the monk include him burning his finger to usher in rain and curing local people of disease by blessing them, in addition to performing many other miracles. He was the chief monk at the temple, a choreographer of traditional water puppetry, an inventor, and also a medical man and mystic in his village. Từ Đạo Hạnh (also known as Minh Không) was a famous monk.
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