The Kim Liên Pagoda (),
Chữ Hán
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: 金蓮寺) is a
Buddhist pagoda in
Hanoi
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. The pagoda is built on a strip of silt land by
West Lake
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, then in Nghi Tàm village, today in Quảng An village, Tây Hồ district. According to tradition, the pagoda was built on the foundation of the
Lý dynasty
The Lý dynasty (, , chữ Nôm: 茹李, chữ Hán: 朝李, Vietnamese language, Vietnamese: ''triều Lý''), officially Đại Cồ Việt (chữ Hán: 大瞿越) from 1009 to 1054 and Đại Việt (chữ Hán: 大越) from 1054 to 1225, was ...
Từ Hoa Palace, named after princess Từ Hoa, daughter of
Lý Thần Tông
Lý Thần Tông (1116–1138), personal name Lý Dương Hoán, was the fifth emperor of the Lý dynasty, reigning over Đại Việt from 1127 to his death in 1138. Becoming the ruler of Đại Việt at the age of twelve, Lý Thần Tông s ...
(1128-1138), in an area used as a royal silk farm. The current pagoda was reconstructed 1771–1792.
[Bích Ngọc Phạm ''Architecture of Thăng Long-Hà Nội'' 2006 p95 "In 1771, ]Trịnh lord Trịnh is a Vietnamese family name. It exists in equivalent forms in other languages of the Sinosphere such as ( 鄭, Zheng, Cheng) in Chinese and Korean (Jeong, Chung).
Families that bear the surname Trịnh are exclusively Vietnamese. The surn ...
ordered the reconstruction of the pagoda and renamed it Kim Liên Pagoda. However , the appearance of the present - day Kim Liên Pagoda resulted from the restoration conducted in 1792. "
References
Buddhist temples in Hanoi
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