Tam Thai Pagoda

This guide to Tam Thai Pagoda in the Marble Mountains opens with a fugitive prince, Nguyen Anh, cornered by Tay Son rebels in the late seventeen hundreds and taking shelter in an already century-old mountain temple. Kneeling at the altar, he makes a vow to Buddha about what he will do for the shrine if he survives. You'll hear how that promise eventually gets kept, decades later, by a member of his own family, and what still hangs behind the altar to mark it. The guide also follows Princess Ngoc Lan, who later studied Buddhism at that same altar.