religious beliefs and practices

Table of Contents

I/ Introduction…………………………………………………..2

II/ Historical Background………………………………………3

III/ Religious Beliefs and Practices…………………………….4

IV/ Architecture, Statues and Altars……………………………5

1. Architecture………………………………………………..5

2. Statues and Altars………………………………………....9

V/ Heroes, Legends and Festivals………………………………15

VI/ Advice for Visitors………………………………………….16

VII/ List of References……………………………………….....18

I. INTRODUCTION

In recent years, Vietnam has become one of the most famous

destinations in the world. Every year, there are many foreign tourists

traveling to Vietnam. They visit Vietnam for many purposes such as:

business, vacation… but as we see their main purpose is learning about

Vietnam culture or visiting some famous landscapes in Vietnam. And

especially, many of them like visiting pagodas in Vietnam.

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In Asia countries, pagoda is a very special and sacred place. It makes

people who come to visit pagoda feel very safe, peaceful. And if they can

understand about the pagoda where they visit, it will be more interesting.

That is the reason why we write this report. This is also a good chance for us

to know more about pagoda, about language which is used to talk about

pagoda. It is very useful and good for our job in the future. After finishing

this report, we also know how to organize information in the report, and

especially our English writing skill has improved very much.

So we would like to thank our teachers very much who gave us this

project and helped us this project successfully.

As you know, in Vietnam, here are so many pagodas, people can visit

pagoda in every province with many sizes from small to very large. Some

pagodas are very famous such as: Perfume pagoda, Kim Lien pagoda, Ba Da

pagoda, Tran Quoc pagoda… Numbers of tourist come to see these pagodas

is very high.

But in this project, we would like to introduce to you one pagoda

which is not very famous but it is very beautiful and ancient, it is Thien Nien

pagoda, located in Trich Sai village, Buoi Guild, Tay Ho district, Hanoi.

We choose this pagoda because two main reasons:

- We had some chances to visit Thien Nien pagoda. It is very large,

ancient. It is not so far for us to come.

- We have read some interesting information about this pagoda and it

makes us confident to discover carefully.

Thien Nien pagoda was recognized as a historical and cultural site by state in

31st, January, 1992.

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