Visit Tay Thien Truc Lam Zen Monastery - Vinh Phuc

Tay Thien Tam Dao Vinh Phuc is one of the famous spiritual lands in the North, with thousands of people coming here every year to worship Buddha, pray for peace and fortune for themselves and their families. If you are intending to visit Truc Lam Tay Thien Zen Monastery, then find out the useful Tay Thien travel experiences that vntrip.vn shares below!

1. When is the best season to travel to Tay Thien Tam Dao?

Located on the slopes of Thach Ban mountain in the Tam Dao range, about an hour’s drive from Hanoi,  Tay Thien  is a charming mountainous area with rich flora and fauna and a mild year-round climate. Therefore, you can travel to  Tay Thien Tam Dao  at any time of the year, each season is a different experience.

If you go in the spring, you will have the opportunity to pray for fortune, pray for luck for the whole year, and participate in many unique cultural activities. Traveling to Tay Thien  Tam Dao in the summer, you will enjoy the peaceful atmosphere, calm your mind and attend the repentance ceremony at the monastery. Go in autumn or winter to breathe in the fresh mountain air. Each season has its own character, so you can come here at any time of the year.

2. What’s in Tay Thien Tam Dao?

With an area of ​​about 148ha, Tay Thien relic complex   is located in a biodiversity area with nearly 500 species of plants and 300 species of animals, including many rare species. In  Tay Thien  , there are pine trees that have lived up to a thousand years old, proudly reaching out and casting their shadows down the winding paths in the forest. One day here, one can enjoy the aftertaste of four seasons in a year: the gentle spring breeze at dawn, the warm summer sun at noon, the gentle autumn weather in the afternoon, and the chilly weather of winter when darkness falls.

Tay Thien Tam Dao  is not only attractive by its poetic and lyrical natural scenery, poetic mountains, but also a sacred spiritual spot in the North. If you are planning to visit this most beautiful scenic area of ​​Vinh Phuc province, you cannot ignore this place.

The natural scenery is beautiful, majestic, peaceful and breathtaking in every second, every moment. It is the scene of pristine mountains, ancient temples, sacred temples crammed on high altitudes, or the source of Bat Nha murmuring to the song of return to the incense from beginningless time. In the distance, the Silver Waterfall is as white as the Milky Way, falling from the deep blue sky, creating a peaceful atmosphere.

3. Truc Lam Tay Thien Monastery / Tay Thien Pagoda

Not only bringing the beauty of the majestic mountains and forests, but  Tay Thien  also gives visitors very interesting and new experiences with ancient temple and pagoda architecture. Suddenly in the endless silence is the sound of bells from afar, evoking peace and serenity for the soul of any visitor who has ever set foot here.

Tay Thien Truc Lam Zen Monastery  (also known as  Tay Thien Pagoda ) is located about 65 km from Hanoi to the Northwest, in Dai Dinh Commune, Tam Dao District, Vinh Phuc Province, is a total cultural tourist complex. fit. Along with Truc Lam Zen Monastery in Yen Tu Pagoda and Da Lat, Truc Lam Tay Thien Monastery is one of the largest monasteries in Vietnam.

If interested in the type of Buddhism religion, perhaps no one does not know  Truc Lam Tay Thien  Zen Monastery of Truc Lam Yen Tu Zen lineage, is one of the largest monasteries in Vietnam. Truc Lam Tay Thien Zen Monastery was built right next to the ancient Tay Thien scenic area  . This is a place for systematic Buddhist training, creating conditions for Vietnamese Buddhism to develop in both breadth and depth, and promote exchanges with Buddhist lines of other countries. If you visit Tay Thien, you should also once come to experience Buddhism in this place.

In Kien Van Tan Luc by Le Quy Don, there is also a description of Tay Thien: “ Beneath the color of the water like indigo, the bottom cannot be seen in the depths; The mountainside has  Tay Thien  ancient temple, elegant scenery. On the top of the mountain is Dong Co pagoda; From the left side of Giai Oan slot, climb the mountain to the lotus lake, the water is blue, there are strange rocks and red lotuses, flowers bloom in four seasons. On the two sides of the lake, streams flow from the mountainside, on the left is Silver stream, on the right is Golden stream …”.

Truc Lam Zen Monastery system in Tay Thien area includes monks and nuns. Truc Lam An Tam Zen Monastery was built in 2009 by nun Thuan Giac and the main part was completed in 2012. An Tam has the main temple to worship Shakyamuni Buddha, the ancestral house to worship the ancestors. Zen Buddhism, a guesthouse, a restaurant can serve 200 people at a time. There are also nuns and meditation halls for meditators to practice; many meditation rooms for nuns to practice.

In addition, when coming here, visitors can visit the great Mandala stupa, which is the first stupa of the Vajrayana monastery in Vietnam. At the end of the journey is Quoc Mau Tay Thien Temple, which worships Quoc Mau Mausoleum Thi Tieu, the concubine of the 7th Hung Vuong, who was instrumental in helping the king expand his territory and teaching people to grow rice in the early days of building the country.

4. What to eat when traveling to Tay Thien

If you have been to Tay Thien, you should not miss the specialties here such as chayote tops, hill chicken or pig man… With chayote, you can order dishes such as sautéed garlic, sautéed chayote with beef. or boiled chayote served with sesame salt. Man pig is also processed into many attractive dishes such as steamed pork, grilled pork or plum machete. The hill chicken here has firm, delicious meat that is also processed into many delicious dishes such as grilled hill chicken, roasted hill chicken with salt, roasted hill chicken with fat onion, steamed hill chicken…

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