The king, raised in a monastery, spent 20,000 strings of cash on eight pagodas in his home prefecture of Thiên Đức, each with a stele; the historian Lê Văn Hưu later criticised him for building them before the ancestral temple.
Construction
Lý Thái Tổ builds eight pagodas in Thiên Đức
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