Photographer’s Note
The One Pillar Pogoda is a historic Buddhist temple in Ha Noi. It was built in the year 1049 by Emperor Ly Thai Tong who ruled from 1028 to 1054. According to the court records, Lư Thái Tông was childless and dreamt that he met the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, who handed him a baby son while seated on a lotus flower. The Emperor told his dream to a monk name Thien Tue who advice him to build the temple with the lotus blossom. The temple is built of wood on a single stone pillar 1.25 m in diameter.
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- Copyright: Nguyen Van Kha (khant) (31)
- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2009-06-03
- Categories: Architecture
- Camera: CANON EOS 40D, EF-S 17-85mm
- Exposure: f/9.0, 1/160 seconds
- More Photo Info: view
- Photo Version: Original Version
- Date Submitted: 2009-06-27 20:23
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