Vĩnh Nghiêm Pagoda (; literally Ever Solemn) is a pagoda in an area of at 339, Nam Kỳ Khởi Nghĩa street, Ward 7, District 3 Ho Chi Minh City. This is the first pagoda in Vietnam to be built in Vietnamese traditional architecture style but with concrete. The highest structure in this pagoda is the 7-story, tower. This pagoda houses and worship of one buddha and two bodhisattvas: Gautama Buddha, Manjusri, Samantabhadra. The Peace Bell was donated by a monk of Entsuji Temple in Fukushima, Japan.Minh Dung. "Phật giáo Việt Nam Hải ngoại tổ chức Trai đàn Siêu độ ở hai tỉnh Sendai, Fukushima, Nhật Bản". Chánh pháp, 27 07.2011. The seven-storey tower was built with the assistance of the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Association.Vinh Nghiem Pagoda
History In 1964, two monks, Thích Tâm Giác and Thích Thanh Kiểm, who had come to South Vietnam from North Vietnam to spread Buddhism, began the construction of Vĩnh Nghiêm Pagoda. The model and namesake of the pagoda was the 11th century Vĩnh Nghiêm Pagoda in Đức La Village, Trí Yên Commune, Yên Dũng District, Bắc Giang Province, which dates the reign of Lý Thái Tổ during the Lý dynasty. The village was once a major center of Buddhist teaching and the Trúc Lâm sect of Vietnamese Buddhism.
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Official website of Vĩnh Nghiêm Pagoda A TV report on Vĩnh Nghiêm Pagoda Relocation of Vĩnh Nghiêm Pagoda gate (Vietnam Net) Photo Gallery- SaiGonTiepThi News Comment of Vinh Nghiem Pagoda architecture by Nguyễn Đức Long Vĩnh Nghiêm on TuoiTre news (Vietnamese only)