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Early modern · Buddhist · Vietnam
Giác Lâm Pagoda
Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City · 10.7794°, 106.6492°
Amitabha BuddhaNguyễn lords—
Sacred since
1744 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
1744 (Nguyễn lords)
Nguyễn lords
History & significance
A Buddhist pagoda in the Tân Bình district of Ho Chi Minh City, founded in 1744 by Lý Thụy Long during the rule of the Nguyễn lord Nguyễn Phúc Khoát. Amitabha dominates its main altar, with Shakyamuni and four bodhisattvas set before him, and a bodhi tree brought from Sri Lanka in 1953 grows in its garden.