High Middle Ages · Southeast Asia · Culture
1036
Ly Thai Tong builds One Pillar Pagoda
1036
At Thang Long the Vietnamese king constructed the Dien Huu Pagoda, whose central structure rises from a single stone pillar planted in a lotus pond. Legend held that the design came to the king in a dream, in which the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara appeared seated on a lotus blossom. The pagoda became one of Vietnam's most recognizable architectural symbols.
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Also in 1036 (3 other events on record)
- Seljuk Turks take Nishapur · Central Asia · War
- Fan Zhongyan proposes Song educational reforms · East Asia · Culture
- Qarakhanid khanate splits into eastern and western halves · Central Asia · Politics
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.