Tổ Đình Phụng Sơn - Chùa Gò
Nineteenth-century pagoda on an ancient mound, holding over forty gilded statues and relics from the Funan era.
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This guide to Chua Go in Ho Chi Minh City opens with a wandering monk, Lieu Thong, who stopped on this low mound outside Saigon in the early 1800s, built a hermitage for meditation, and named the place Phung Son after a phoenix that landed and cried out. You'll hear how locals came to call it Chua Go instead, and about the day someone later decided the pagoda should move to a better site, loading its bells, drums and statues onto a white elephant for the journey. Listen for how more than forty gilded wooden statues and older Funan-era relics still fill the halls today, on ground some say was never meant to be left.
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