Residences living in Son Tra Peninsula believed that, at the era of Minh Mang King (Nguyen Dynasty, XIX century), there was a Buddha statue from nowhere floating on the sandbank here. It is believed that was an auspicious sign, people here established a shrine for worship, from that, the region was in great stability and fishermen could work in peace during a long time. The sandbank where the Buddha statue drifted was then named Bai But (i.e. Buddha land on earth) also was where Linh Ung pagoda has erected nowadays.
Linh Ung pagoda was placed the first stone on June 19th, 2004 lunar, after 6 years of construction, on July 30th, 2010, the pagoda was official inaugurated. Nowadays, Linh Ung pagoda is considered as a work stamped development footprint of Buddhism in Vietnam in the XXI century and a meeting place of heaven and earth’s sacred air and people’s heart.
About 9 km away from the city center, Linh Ung pagoda is now known as the largest pagoda in Da Nang City in both scale and art of architecture. The pagoda brings a contemporary style combined with inherent tradition of pagodas in Vietnam, with curved roof in dragon shape, typically, the solid pillars surrounded by sophisticated sinuous dragons.
Major shrine has a large seating capacity where is the most dignified and pure. In the middle, there is a Sakyamuni Buddha statue, the right side has an Bodhisattva statue and the left side has a Buddha Tripitaka statue, four Guardians and 18 Arhats are arranged by a rule to protect the main shrine. Each statue is the embodiment of different emotions “joy, anger, love, and hate” of people that makes the landscape here extremely vivid. Most of tourists who come here are surprised to see these Arhat statues portrayed sophisticated, sharp but smooth.
People considered Linh Ung pagoda was built in a newly formed tourist complex of the city – Son Tra Peninsula tourist area, in the most prime location of this region, the pagoda has become a place of worship, living, studying of monks and nuns, Buddhists as well as a sightseeing place of visitors from four directions, an attractive spiritual tourist destination of Da Nang city where meeting the heaven and earth’s sacred air and people’s heart