via Vietnam Net, 09 February 2023: The popular Tram Gian Pagoda festival in Hanoi brings together villages and local pagodas for a celebration of life and spirit.
From Hanoi’s centre, my motorbike goes through the piercing cold of the early days of spring to Tien Phuong Commune, in the city’s Chuong My rural district, where people from all walks of life are flowing to a century-old pagoda, for a pilgrimage and attending its festival.
The road leading to the So Mountain, where the pagoda is perched, is packed with people.
Tram Gian Pagoda is one of Vietnam’s most ancient pagodas. It is also called Tien Lu and Quang Nghiem and has 100 compartments and over 150 precious statutes. Seen from beneath, the pagoda is like a nice flower opening in the sky and receiving quintessence from the earth and sky.
