The cable car that took us up Ta Cu Mountain didn't take us straight to the Linh Son Truong Tho Pagoda. After alighting from it, we still have to walk up a gravel path to the temple entrance. It was an uncomfortable walk; I remember a friend with weak knees complaining of pain; and yet on reaching the entrance, we had to climb another steep stair. There are two pagodas in the temple ground. A Buddhist monk Tran Huu Duc and his followers built the first pagoda, Linh Sơn Trường Thọ or the Upper Pagoda in the 1870s and after his death in 1887, his followers built Long Đoàn or the lower Long Doan Pagoda. Statues of Buddha and the Goddess of Mercy in the prayer hall were neither big nor impressive; the ones in the nearby open space brought more delights...
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