Place:
The
mountainous region of Yên Tử, Thượng Yên Công Commune, Uông Bí
Town Time:Yên Tử festivities begin on the ninth day of the first lunar month and
last until the end of the third lunar month. Significance:
Yên Tử
has been a centre of Buddhism for many centuries, and is the
starting point of the Buddhist sect of Trúc Lâm. Travellers to Yên
Tử Festival to stay away from the mundane and go on a religion
pilgrimage in the midst of the mighty nature. There
is a popular saying about Yên Tử:"Even
after 100 years of virtuous religious life, if you don't come to
Yên Tử you cannot be called a true religious person". In the wide ensemble of
vestiges in Yên Tử, there are 11 pagodas and hundreds of shrines
and towers. One form of entertainment is to climb the peak to
where the Đông Pagoda was built (1,068m above the sea). On the way, you'll see
pagodas, a tower, a stream and a forest. At the top, after having
burned joss-sticks, you seem to be lost in nature somewhere
between the sky and the earth. When clear, you can perceive almost
all of the northeast area from here.
