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.
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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.