Place of worship
Tu Dam Pagoda
Hillside Buddhist temple shaded by a bodhi tree grown from a cutting of the original Bodh Gaya tree.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Tu Dam Pagoda in Hue follows a physician, Le Dinh Tham, who in nineteen thirty-two turned from medicine to organizing a Buddhist revival, founding an association and a journal that made this hillside temple its headquarters. It traces how that funded, organized network reshaped the buildings you stand among, then carried its momentum into two of the century's defining Buddhist gatherings here. Stand near the bodhi tree in the courtyard, grown from a cutting carried from India.
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