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Early modern · Buddhist · Vietnam
Tu Dam Temple
Truong An, Hue, Hue · 16.4514°, 107.5817°
Gautama BuddhaNguyen lordsTraditional Vietnamese Buddhist
Sacred since
1670 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
late 17th c.; renamed Tu Dam 1841
Nguyen lords
History & significance
A Hue monastery founded in the late 17th century by the Lam Te Zen master Thich Minh Hoang and granted the title Sac Tu An Ton Tu by the Nguyen lord Nguyen Phuc Chu in 1703; Emperor Thieu Tri renamed it Tu Dam in 1841. A bodhi offshoot from Bodh Gaya was planted in its forecourt in 1939.