Bo Da pagoda, home to Vietnam’s biggest tower garden

Bo Da pagoda is remarkable for its feng shui characteristics, architecture, woodblocks, guardian god statues, and the largest tower garden in Vietnam. VNA Photo: Danh Lam

Bo Da pagoda is remarkable for its feng shui characteristics, architecture, woodblocks, guardian god statues, and the largest tower garden in Vietnam. VNA Photo: Danh Lam

A long wall around the tower garden was built from mountain rocks, bricks and clay, creating a serene and deep look for the garden. VNA Photo: Danh Lam

A long wall around the tower garden was built from mountain rocks, bricks and clay, creating a serene and deep look for the garden. VNA Photo: Danh Lam

Bo Da pagoda appears to be a closed complex from the outside yet features hundreds of compartments that all open into one another on the inside. The special structure provides visitors with a sacred, secluded refuge from the outside world. VNA Photo: Danh Lam

A long wall around the tower garden was built from mountain rocks, bricks and clay, creating a serene and deep look for the garden. VNA Photo: Danh Lam

The pagoda’s tower garden is considered the most largest and most beautiful of its kind in Vietnam. This is where the bone-ash and sarira of over 1,000 monks and nuns are kept. Most of the towers are 3-5m high and have three or four stories. VNA Photo: Danh Lam

Lying on Phuong Hoang (Phoenix) Mountain and facing the Cau River, Bo Da, also known as Duc La, Pagoda is among the most major centre of Truc Lam Zen Buddhism. VNA Photo: Danh Lam

These towers, inscribed with the dates of birth and death of the monks, are a valuable source for researchers of Lam Te Buddhism VNA Photo: Danh Lam

These towers, inscribed with the dates of birth and death of the monks, are a valuable source for researchers of Lam Te Buddhism VNA Photo: Danh Lam

Lying on Phuong Hoang (Phoenix) Mountain and facing the Cau River, Bo Da, also known as Duc La, Pagoda is among the most major centre of Truc Lam Zen Buddhism. VNA Photo: Danh Lam