After dreaming that the bodhisattva Guanyin led him up onto a lotus throne, Lý Thái Tông began the Diên Hựu pagoda, a shrine on a single stone pillar in a lotus pond, in the 10th month of 1049.
Construction
Construction of the One Pillar Pagoda
- 1049
- Southeast Asia
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