Church
Thien An Monastery
Hilltop Benedictine monastery and working farm, its pine forest hand-planted by the founding monks.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Thien An Monastery in Hue follows two French Benedictine monks who arrived on a bare hillside in nineteen forty planning to settle in Da Lat instead. It traces the three hungry years they spent digging a lake and planting a forest by hand before any chapel stood, and the self-sufficient farm the community still keeps today. It also touches on a modern dispute over the land those monks once cultivated by hand. Best heard walking the pine paths the monks themselves planted.
This audio guide was created using AI.