Table of Contents

I/ Introduction 2

In recent years, Vietnam has become one of the most famous destinations in the world. Every year, there are many foreign tourists traveling to Vietnam. They visit Vietnam for many purposes such as: business, vacation… but as we see their main purpose is learning about Vietnam culture or visiting some famous landscapes in Vietnam. And especially, many of them like visiting pagodas in Vietnam.

In Asia countries, pagoda is a very special and sacred place. It makes people who come to visit pagoda feel very safe, peaceful. And if they can understand about the pagoda where they visit, it will be more interesting. That is the reason why we write this report. This is also a good chance for us to know more about pagoda, about language which is used to talk about pagoda. It is very useful and good for our job in the future. After finishing this report, we also know how to organize information in the report, and especially our English writing skill has improved very much.

So we would like to thank our teachers very much who gave us this project and helped us this project successfully.

As you know, in Vietnam, here are so many pagodas, people can visit pagoda in every province with many sizes from small to very large. Some pagodas are very famous such as: Perfume pagoda, Kim Lien pagoda, Ba Da pagoda, Tran Quoc pagoda… Numbers of tourist come to see these pagodas is very high.

But in this project, we would like to introduce to you one pagoda which is not very famous but it is very beautiful and ancient, it is Thien Nien pagoda, located in Trich Sai village, Buoi Guild, Tay Ho district, Hanoi.

We choose this pagoda because two main reasons:

- We had some chances to visit Thien Nien pagoda. It is very large, ancient. It is not so far for us to come.

- We have read some interesting information about this pagoda and it makes us confident to discover carefully.

Thien Nien pagoda was recognized as a historical and cultural site by state in 31st, January, 1992.

II/ Historical Background 3

III/ Religious Beliefs and Practices 4

IV/ Architecture, Statues and Altars 5

1. Architecture5

2. Statues and Altars9

V/ Heroes, Legends and Festivals 15

VI/ Advice for Visitors 16

VII/ List of References 18