1.Geographical location, History of formationLocated on the slopes of Thien Van mountain, a high mountain range in Tay Son street, Tran Thanh Ngo ward, Kien An district, Hai Phong city.Tay Son pagoda is popular with Hai Phong people in general. and Kien An’s children in particular. People contributed money and contributed money to build. In 2011 the pagoda was completed and chaired by nun Thich Dieu Luong (who had great merit in building the temple.)
Nun Thich Dieu Luong, who followed the spiritual path very early, at the age of 16, she began to cut her hair and become a monk. In 1983, she was assigned to be the abbot of Tay Son Pagoda by the Hai Phong City Buddhist Association. Since then, she has built up solidarity and attachment between incense sticks, Buddhists in pagodas, as well as with local people. At the same time, she actively donated, mobilized benefactors, combined with mobilizing all resources to build Tay Son Pagoda more and more spacious and beautiful, an attractive destination for tourists from all over the world. well meet the religious needs of the people.
- Architectural art
Tay Son pagoda system was built on a relatively beautiful terrain, landscape, and feng shui harmony. The terrain of Tay Son pagoda was also chosen by the ancients as a good land for construction, the position of the Tortoise – the sacred animal of the four spirits (dragon, ly, turtle, phoenix). According to the concept of Eastern culture, the symbolic meaning of the tortoise spreads across all domains of the imagination, masculine and feminine, human and cosmic. Turtles have top shells that are round like the sky – this reminds them of a dome – flat bottoms represent the earth, turtles are an indicator of the universe: Turtles have the function of support, ensuring safety stable, it is tied to the source water. In Vietnam, perhaps due to the specificity of the river culture of the Vietnamese people, the water turtle (swamp turtle, sea turtle) has become a sacred and deified symbol in the minds of Vietnamese people. The turtle is also a symbol of health and longevity. Another quite special thing is that the land here also bears the image of a phoenix bird spreading its wings, where the temple is located in the exact position of this bird’s kite. That is the spirit of the same place for Tay Son Pagoda to be sustainable forever.
With a relatively favorable cultural and spiritual location and imbued with sacred vestiges, there are still feng shui values, cultural values related to geography for Hai Phong province.