The Hai Bà Trưng Temple is a place of worship in
Hanoi
Hanoi or Ha Noi ( or ; vi, Hà Nội ) is the capital and second-largest city of Vietnam. It covers an area of . It consists of 12 urban districts, one district-leveled town and 17 rural districts. Located within the Red River Delta, Hanoi is ...
near
Hoàn Kiếm Lake. It is one of several temples to the two
Trưng Sisters in Vietnam.
According to tradition it was founded by
Lý Anh Tông around 1160 after he visited a shrine to the Trưng Sisters, who then appeared to him as rain spirits. Culturally, the development of the cult of the sisters at that time is in the context of assertion of independence after the end of the
Third Chinese domination of Vietnam
The Third Era of Northern Domination refers to the third period of Chinese rule in Vietnamese history. The era starts from the end of the Early Lý dynasty in 602 to the rise of the local Khúc family and other Viet warlords in the early 10th ce ...
- nearly 1000 years after the Qin conquest of
Jiaozhi.
The altar display at the Trưng Sisters temple shows their violent death rather than suicide.
[Philip Taylor ''Modernity and Re-Enchantment: Religion in Post-Revolutionary Vietnam'' Page 163 2007 -"Stories associating violent death with powerful female deities such as the Trưng sisters and Lady ]Liễu Hạnh
Princess Liễu Hạnh ( vi, Liễu Hạnh Công chúa, chữ Hán: 柳杏公主) is one of The Four Immortals in Vietnamese folk religion, and also a leading figure in the mother goddess cult Đạo Mẫu, in which she governs the celestial re ...
are also known ... A description of the altar display at the Two Trưng Sisters' northern temple prompted Tạ Chí Đại Trường to suggest...
References
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Temples in Hanoi