Tay Phuong Pagoda was built during the 6th and 7th centuries and has been restored several times since then. It contains three successive constructions: the Hall of Prostration, the Main Shrine, and the Sanctuary, all with double tiered roofs.
This beautiful statue of the thousand-armed Goddess of Mercy was sculpted in 1893. It stands inside the Main Shrine (Chua Trung) of Tay Phuong Pagoda.
The Goddess of Mercy is the Bodhisattva associated with compassion as venerated by East Asian Buddhists. She is the source, the female aspect of the universe, which gives birth to warmth, compassion and relief from bad karma as experienced by ordinary beings in cyclic existence. She engenders, nourishes, smiles at the vitality of creation, and has sympathy for all beings as a mother does for her children. In Vietnamese, the name of Bodhisattva of Mercy is Quan Âm or Quán Thé Âm.
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