Truc Lam Zen Monastery is one of the most special architecture constructions of the Buddhist Sangha of Dalat. This monastery is located on the top of Phung Hoang mountain and next to Tuyen Lam lake. Standing here – on mount Phung Hoang, you can admire the whole outstanding panorama of Tuyen Lam lake.
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Along with Truc Lam Yen Tu in Quang Ninh province, Truc Lam Tay Thien Phuc in Vinh Phuc province, Truc Lam Monastery Dalat is one of the three largest Zen monasteries in Vietnam. This monastery is a blessing in disguise tucked away in the Bonsall hills. So peaceful, serene, and humble it stands co-existing with nature, man, and community. Every Sunday lesson is taught by the monks both in a Vietnamese session and later in the English session followed by a literally silent community lunch.
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Contents
- 1 Introducing Truc Lam Phung Hoang zen monastery
- 3 Information about Truc Lam Zen Monastery
- 4 Tourist attractions nearby
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Introducing Truc Lam Phung Hoang zen monastery
Truc Lam Phung Hoang is one of the three biggest zen monasteries in Vietnam. It is a Zen temple of Truc Lam Yen Tu sect, including two other biggest temples: Truc Lam Phuong Nam in Can Tho province and Truc Lam in Ha Noi. The place was started construction from 1993 and finished after a year. Located about 5km from the city center, this tourist attraction is close to Tuyen Lam lake.
History
There was a story about Thich Thanh Tu – a Vietnamese Zen buddhist monk. In the past, he dreamed about hugging the neck of a phoenix. Then the phoenix took him to the Sukhavati – the home of Gautama Buddha. When he wook up, he had a thought that he could create a place like Sukhavati. Then he started to find, he found a land on the top of Phung Hoang mountain. A beautiful and tranquil land surround by vast pine forest – ideal place to lead a religious life.
A beautiful and tranquil land surround by vast pine forest – Source: facebook
The place was started construction in 1993 and finished after a year. This monastery was designed by some of the best architectures like Vu Xuan Hung, Tran Duc Loc and the best architecture at the time – Ngo Viet Thu. The person who designed Independence Palace also known as Reunification Palace in Ho Chi Minh city.
Overall architecture
The temple is divided into 2 main areas, the domestic areas and public area. The public area encompasses the constructions such as great hall and Tinh Tam lake. The domestic area is closed to the public. There are two domestic quarters, for monks and nuns respectively.
The great hall has an acreage of around 192 m2. In the middle of the hall, there is a statue of Gautama Buddha with the height of 2 meters. On the outside, there are a drum tower and a bell tower. Inside the bell tower, there is a great bell weighed up to 1,1 ton.
Drum tower – Source: facebook
If you want something more “nature”, you can visit the flower garden. I highly recommend you to come here and admire the beauty. Many sorts of amazing flowers like hydrangea, scarlet sage, etc. Especially, there is an outstanding jade vine truss, you will be stunned by its beauty!
Jade vine truss – Source: youtube
And the last part of the public area is Tinh Tam lake. The people here are raising and protecting many types of endangered turtle.
Information about Truc Lam Zen Monastery
Below is some useful information that you need to know about this famous monastery.
Address
Truc Lam Yen Tu, ward 3, Dalat city, Lam Dong province.
Sacred place – Source: facebook
Opening hours
Opening hours: from 5:00 am to 9:00 pm daily.
If you want to stay here, you can ask the monks or nuns or abbot of the temple.
Entrance ticket
Because this is a sacred place, you don’t have to worry about the entrance ticket. Everybody can visit this monastery at any time without being charged.
Flower garden – Source: facebook
Cable car
This is the unique characteristic of this temple – a cable car system conect Robin hill and Truc Lam zen monastery. The ticket price of the cable car is 50.000 VND for a one-way ticket and 70.000 VND for a round-trip ticket. Or you can also get here by car or motorbike.
The cable car system conects Robin hill and Truc Lam temple – Source: facebook
Google maps Truc Lam zen monastery
Below is the map showing driving directions from Dalat market to Truc Lam meditation center:
Truc Lam zen monastery review:
Here are some review of tourists about Truc Lam zen monastery on Google. You can also refer to other reviews on other networking sites.
Tourist attractions nearby
After visit Truc Lam, you can take time to visit the following tourist attractions:
- Dalat cable car
Other famous pagodas and temples
- Chinese pagoda
- Van Hanh monastery
- Linh Son pagoda
Rules of Truc Lam
Below are the rules of the temple:
Rules of Truc Lam – Source: facebook
Photos of Truc Lam zen monastery
Below are some pictures that’s been taken by tourists:
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Truc Lam Phung Hoang – Source: datphongdalat
Tours
If you want to book a tour to visit Truc Lam meditation center. You can contact Hoa Dalat Travel immediately via hotline 079. 215.8486.
Dalat inner city tour, ticket price: 130.000 VND. You will visit the following tourist attractions:
- King Palace 1
- Dalat cable car (self-sufficient)
- Dalat chicken church
- Truc Lam zen monastery
- Tuyen Lam lake
- Datanla waterfall
- US dry showroom
- Van Hanh monastery
Beautiful flowers – Source: Nhomphuot
Forest Ghost Inn – Cu Lan village – Clay tunne Tour
Tour price: 350.000 VND, you will visit the following tourist attractions:
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- Forest ghost inn
- Cu Lan village
- Clay tunnel
- Truc Lam zen monastery
- Tuyen Lam lake
- Linh Phuoc Pagoda (Ve Chai pagoda)
Hoa Dalat Travel also organizes so many other tours. So if you want to know more information please contact us via hotline 079.215.8486.
Truc Lam Phung Hoang zen monastery – Source: Công Viên Quốc Gia
Finally, thank you for your interest in our article about Truc Lam Zen Monastery. Wish you have a most beautiful and memorable trip to Dalat city!
Tháng Tư 15, 2020Dalat is no longer a strange name to most of Vietnamese people as well as foreigners thanks to its charming beauty and amazing landscape together with the wonderful weather. If you have once visited Dalat, you would not be forget that driving along Highway 20 through majestic Prenn Pass and Datanla Waterfall, then turning to the left about 1km across the untouched pine forests, you will encounter turquoise Tuyen Lam Lake, a truly attractive masterpiece of Dalat. Perhaps its popularity is partly from the contribution of Truc Lam Monastery, an antique religious architecture in the area of the lake. It’s no doubt that tourists will definitely experience serene moments of mind in place of pure nothingness one arriving the great monastery.
Elt driver. To reach the Monastery, tourists have to run right onto a zigzagging road at the mountain side to Phoenix Summit, on which stands beautiful famous Truc Lam Zen Monastery in an open poetic natural environment. Along with Truc Lam Yen Tu in Quang Ninh province, Truc Lam Tay Thien Phuc in Vinh Phuc province, Truc Lam Monastery Dalat is one of the three largest Zen monasteries in Vietnam. Dating back to the historical explanation, it was established in special social conditions, with the aim of restoring Truc Lam Yen Tu Zen School founded by the King Tran Thanh Tong, this Zen school has harmoniously combined different Zen schools with Vietnamese cultural and tradition into Vietnamese Zen. Truc Lam Zen Monastery lies on a protected forest of 23,2 hectares, of which 2 hectares is the building area. Going on to the modern time, Truc Lam Zen Monastery was designed in a new way with the oriental architecture style. Built in 1993-1994 by superior Buddhist monk Thich Thanh Tu, thanks to the beautiful landscapes, the pagoda is not only a place for meditation but also an ideal place for visiting.
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Mediation has been by far such a good and healthy way to balance people physically and mentally. As being a meditation center, its main purpose is to help people live in “full awareness” and bring their souls back into peaceful state. Truc Lam Buddhist Zen emphasizes on every one’s interior concentration, either a religious or someone in his/her family. This introspective soul training process leads to personal purification, builds a care-free mind and help one’s good nature to show up; this is the real peace in everyone’s interior, not in a certain paradise in a faraway world. Deepening and harmonizing into the nature and you would feel a cool and fresh air coming into to soul and body.
Not only is it a unique architectural works adjacent Tuyen Lam Lake, but Truc Lam Monastery also is an impressive tourist Dalat attractions. Going up from Tuyen Lam Lake is a 140 stone step steep path with towering pine groves leading through 3 three-entrance gates to enter the sanctum. The sanctum area owns an area of 192 m2 with simple architecture but retaining deep significance of the Buddha. The center of the sanctum is the Buddhist statue of Shakyamuni 2m high with right hand holding lotus flower. The right of the Buddha is Bodhisattva Manjushri riding a lion. The left is the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra riding white elephant. Surrounding the holy sanctum are bas-reliefs meticulously carved.
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It can be said that the monastery’s flower garden is one of the sites tourist cannot miss when setting foot on Truc Lam Monastery. It is also the rare flower garden housing the great number of strange and precious flowers. Varieties of flowers were planted by monks and nuns here. Unlike other Dalat pagodas, Truc Lam Pagoda also retains a nursery and transplant garden. It is a home to many kinds of flowers over the world. The most famous is species of purple myrtle, Australia kapok or confederate rose… Tourists seemly are lost in a world of flowers when arriving here. Immersing in a peaceful and gorgeous scenery, tourists seem to forget the noise and bustle of urban life in order to soak up with the nature, the earth and sky instead.
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If you have been fully tired of your entire busy life with too much stress and you really seek for a place where you can find the balance in life, Thien Vien Monastery will be a perfect choice for you. You can have meditation, you can watch the sightseeing and you can feel peaceful in your mind. Just spend a sum of time covered by this wonderful and amazing place and you would find how worth it is in your trip list!