The opening ceremony features traditional rituals such as drum beating, bell ringing and other spiritual practices.
Yen Tu Mountain is closely attached with the name King-Monk Tran Nhan Tong (1258-1308), the third King of the Tran Dynasty, who defeated Mongol invaders twice during his 15-year reign.
The King abdicated when he was 35 and spent the rest of his life on Yen Tu Mountain practicing and popularising Buddhism. On the 1,068m-high Yen Tu Mountain, he founded the first Vietnamese School of Buddhism called “Thien Tong”, or Truc Lam Yen Tu Zen. The 20,000ha site is considered the capital of Vietnamese Buddhism.
Yen Tu was recognised as a special national relic site in 2013. It is home to dozens of pagodas, hundreds of towers and thousands of ancient relics containing the spiritual values and thoughts of the Truc Lam Zen sect and the glorious culture of the Dai Viet period.
