Ba Da Pagoda (Pagoda of the Lady in Stone) – Real name Linh Quang Tu(Sacred Light).,No.3, Nha Tho Street. Under Le Thanh Tong (1460 – 1497) in Bao Thien village (nearby the present Hanoi cathedral), after having unearthed a stone statue of a lady, people erected a small temple dedicated to her cult.
In the time of French colonization the statue of Sakya Mouni dated back to the early XXth century, two bronze bells of 1823 and 1881, a bronze gong of 1842; the statues are generally of large sizes. This pagoda is considered as a place of ascetism for patriarchs of the dhyanist sect Thien, one of two Buddhist sects in North Vietnam.
