Ancient Temple
Dear guests, so you have conquered the peak of Dinh mountain, overcome more than 150 challenging stone steps to get lost in the nature of the ancient Bai Dinh temple. Nestled on Mount Dinh, the ancient Bai Dinh Pagoda is located on the top of the mountain 187m high, this is the place where National Master Nguyen Minh Khong of the Ly Dynasty practiced Buddhism. He discovered in a fairyland, the mountains turn to the west as if paying homage to the Buddha's land, the wild mountains and forests with thousands of precious medicinal plants. After that, he stopped to practice and turned this place into a "biological garden" (pharmaceutical garden) to save the life of the nation. He directly took medicine to cure sentient beings and treated King Ly Than Tong's tiger with precious medicines available here and some of them were brought from other places to grow.
The main categories of the pagoda include: Buddha's cave, Mother's cave, Saint Nguyen Minh Khong's shrine and Cao Son's shrine. In 1997, Bai Dinh ancient temple was recognized as a national historical - cultural - revolutionary relic with many architectural details and antiques bearing the bold imprint of the Ly Dynasty. All the altars for worshiping Buddha and Mother of the temple are placed in the heart of the dark caves, adding to the sacred and mysterious atmosphere at the meditation door. Cave ceilings have become solid pagoda roofs, shielding the sacred places of Buddha and Mother for centuries. And Bai Dinh is not only a place for people to show their devotion, but also a beautiful landscape. When visiting here, King Le Thanh Tong personally dedicated four words "Ming Dinh famous" praising the beauty of this place.
Every year, when the Bai Dinh pagoda festival is held, it attracts a large number of tourists from all over the country as well as foreign tourists. Because coming to the Bai Dinh pagoda festival, visitors also feel the love of nature in the historical festival so that they can look forward to the past of building a heroic and indomitable country of our nation. Thereby, forming in the mind of every Vietnamese person the psychological and subconscious expectations, the desire to rise towards the good, towards the good.
It must be recognized that the Creator nature has really favored the people and the land of Ninh Binh with extremely unique and attractive landscapes. From here, it has partly created an ancient and sacred colorful Bai Dinh, worthy of being a precious jewel, a place where the quintessence of heaven and earth converge, a place of meaningful spiritual tourism, showing the respect of children. people with Buddha gods but still imbued with national historical values. Ladie and gentlement, the first point you visit in the ancient temple is the morning cave, a place to worship Buddha.