High Middle Ages · Southeast Asia · Religion
1012
Ly Thai To constructs temples at Thang Long
1012
The Vietnamese founder-king, a devout Buddhist, ordered the construction of pagodas and temple complexes across his new capital at Thang Long. He invited monks from China and built the One Pillar Pagoda on a single stone column rising from a lotus pond, a structure that would become one of Vietnam's most enduring architectural symbols.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.