Chiêu Thiền Pagoda (, Hán Nôm: 昭禪寺) is a Buddhist temple in Kẻ Láng Village, now Láng Ward of the capital Hanoi, Vietnam.

History

Chiêu Thiền Pagoda is known in French as Pagode des Dames (meaning "Temple of the Ladies"). It worships Buddhist monk Từ Đạo Hạnh and was said that built by emperors Lý Anh Tông or Lý Thần Tông.

The space of Chiêu Thiền Pagoda (now Chùa Láng Street) was ever home to the first feature film of Vietnamese cinema Kim Vân Kiều, which was shot in 1923. In addition, this architectural work has also appeared in a number of short documentaries by French filmmakers.

See also Láng

Notes and references Notes

References

Further reading Bibliography

Đan Sơn (1735 – ?), Sơn-cư tạp-chí (山居雜誌), Đông Kinh, Bắc Hà, An Nam, 1786–9. George Coedes. The Making of South East Asia, 2nd ed. University of California Press, 1983. Trần Ngọc Thêm. Cơ sở văn hóa Việt Nam (The Foundation of Vietnamese Culture), 504 pages. Publishing by Nhà xuất bản Đại học Tổng hợp TPHCM. Saigon, Vietnam, 1995. Trần Quốc Vượng, Tô Ngọc Thanh, Nguyễn Chí Bền, Lâm Mỹ Dung, Trần Thúy Anh. Cơ sở văn hóa Việt Nam (The Basis of Vietnamese Culture), 292 pages. Re-publishing by Nhà xuất bản Giáo Dục Việt Nam & Quảng Nam Printing Co-Ltd. Hanoi, Vietnam, 2006. Li Tana (2011). Jiaozhi (Giao Chỉ) in the Han period Tongking Gulf. In Cooke, Nola; Li Tana; Anderson, James A. (eds.). The Tongking Gulf Through History. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 39–44. ISBN 9780812205022. Tập bản đồ hành chính Việt Nam (Vietnamese Administrative Maps), Nhà xuất bản Tài nguyên – Môi trường và Bản đồ Việt Nam, Hà Nội, 2013. Li Tana, Towards an environmental history of the Eastern Red River Delta, Vietnam, c.900–1400, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014. Samuel Baron, Christoforo Borri, Olga Dror, Keith W. Taylor (2018). Views of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam : Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-501-72090-1.

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