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Tu Dam Pagoda

Tu Dam Pagoda, which is about 600m south of Bao Quoc Pagoda at the corner of D Dien Bien Phu and D Tu Dam, is one of Vietnam's best known pago­das. Unfortunately, the present buildings are recent addi tions that date from as recent ly as 1936.

T u Dam Pagoda was founded around 1695 by Minh Hoang Tu Dung, a Chines e monk. It was given its present name by Emperor Tliieu Tri in 1 R41. It was here tl i;it the Unif ied Vietnamese Buddhist Associa­tion was established at a meeting held in 195 1. During the early 1960s, Tu Dam was a major centre of the Buddhist anti-Diem and anti-war movement and in 1968 it became the scene of heavy f ighting, scars of which remain.

Today, Tu Dam Pagoda, home to a hand­ful of monks, is the seat of the provincial Buddhist Association. The peculiar bronze Thich Ca Buddha in the sanctuary was cast in Hue in 1966.

Just east of the pagoda down D Tu Dam is Linh Quang Pagoda and th e tomb ofll.c scholar and an ti-colonialist revolutionatv Phan Boi Chau (1867-1940).