Ấn Quang Pagoda

The An- Quang Pagoda ( vi. ān Quang tự印 光寺or Chùa ān Quang, also Ung Quang ) in Master Van Hanh street in the 10th district is a meeting place for representatives of Buddhism in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly " Saigon " ) and seat of the Institute of Dharma announcement. Although the pagoda has only existed since 1948, but it reflects the varied history and development of the Vietnamese Buddhism resist for more than half a century. Here the center of Buddhist activities was after the Second World War, the headquarters of the College of Buddhist Studies and the headquarters of the Federal United Buddhists in Vietnam. The building of the pagoda were continuously grown and expanded and next to a large auditorium and a library it came to the construction of some farm buildings, such as printers, publishers, and Räucherkerzenerzeugung. But the importance of the pagoda lies in the large number of Dharmalehrern who have received here, along with thousands of monks and nuns, their sound education.

Today, the pagoda serves as the headquarters of the Buddhist Sangha of Ho Chi Minh City and maybe you will also increasingly the role of reconciliation between the Communist Party and the government and the (now less) suppressed the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam.

Among the founders of An Quang Buddhist Institute in 1949 included, among other things, Thich Nhat Hanh.