Place of worship
Chùa Từ Hiếu
Forest hermitage turned pagoda, founded by a monk who broke vegetarian vows to cook for his mother.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Chua Tu Hieu in Hue follows a nineteenth-century monk named Nhat Dinh, who left his post advising the imperial court to build a forest hut and care for his ailing mother. When his vegetarian vows collided with a doctor's orders for fish broth, his daily trips to the market spread through the city as a scandal. The pagoda that later rose on this spot became a resting place for eunuchs of the royal court who had no family to tend their graves.
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