The Minh Hương layman Lý Thụy Long raised funds to build a pagoda on Cẩm Sơn hill near Saigon in the spring of 1744. As Giác Lâm, it became the first school of scripture and monastic rule for monks in the south.
Construction
Giác Lâm pagoda built
- 1744
- Southeast Asia
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