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Lien Hoa Pagoda

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Picture stepping off the boat on Phú Quý island, your legs not yet used to solid ground after the crossing, and there, near the island's ferry port, a temple roof already waiting.

Chùa Liên Hoa (Liên Hoa Pagoda) is a Buddhist temple near the island's ferry port.

Eighty years on, and the islanders are still adding to it

In 2024 the temple marked 80 years since its khai sơn, its founding (literally "opening the mountain", the traditional term for establishing a Buddhist temple). Its founder was the late Most Venerable Thích Tường Vân, a senior revered figure of Buddhism in Bình Thuận province, the province Phú Quý belonged to until July 2025, before it became a đặc khu (special administrative zone) of Lâm Đồng province. At the anniversary ceremony his biography was read aloud by the head of the Ban Hộ tự, the lay committee that looks after the temple, while the Most Venerable Thích Thiện Hoa recalled the founding masters who built the temples on the island, Liên Hoa above all.

Are you curious what keeps a temple on an island alive for eighty years? The 2024 ceremony answered part of that. On the same occasion the temple unveiled a statue of Quan Thế Âm Bồ Tát (Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion), made through the devotion of Buddhists on the island and from near and far. The temple is kept by its lay committee, and the ceremony drew senior monks from the province, lay Buddhists and representatives of the island's local government. The heritage here does not sit still behind glass: the islanders themselves are still adding to it.

A monk founded this temple. In 2024 the islanders raised a new statue. What will they add in the years to come? It may be worth a visit to guess for yourself.

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What it is: A Buddhist temple on Phú Quý island, still in active use
Where: Near the island's ferry port, đặc khu (special zone) Phú Quý, Lâm Đồng province
Founder: The late Most Venerable Thích Tường Vân
Latest milestone: In 2024 the temple marked 80 years since its founding
Look for: The statue of Quan Âm facing the sea

From someone who has been

When you arrive, find the statue of Quan Âm facing the sea and stand for a while looking the same way. This is a working temple, not something set up for visitors, so come in as a guest of the temple. Being near the port, it is a natural stop right after you land or before the boat home.

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Source

The history comes from an article of 26 Sep 2024 on the page of the Executive Board of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha of Bình Thuận province. The article covers the ceremony marking 80 years since the founding of the pagoda, the inauguration of the statue of Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva (Quan Thế Âm Bồ Tát), the founder, the late Venerable Elder Thích Tường Vân, and the pagoda's Support Committee. The original page cannot currently be opened, so we read the Internet Archive copy (6 Jun 2026). The location and coordinates were cross-checked with the Google Maps pin on 29 Sep 2026. The detail 'the first pagoda you see when coming ashore from the boat' comes from two guest reviews on Google Maps: this is user speech, not press. The street name in the address comes from OpenStreetMap via Nominatim (read 26 Sep 2026). There are five things we do not record. We do not record the founding year as a specific year, because the sources give three figures that do not match: '80 years' in 2024, 'nearly 90 years' on a ferry-ticket sales page, and roughly '1944–1965' in a review. We do not record a 1998 restoration, because only a ferry-ticket sales page and one guest review say so. We do not record the detail of a tall Guanyin statue facing the sea, because only one guest says so, and said it before the 2024 inauguration, so it is unclear whether it is the same statue. We do not record the hamlet name in the address, because the label 'Triều Dương' appears only on Google. We do not record opening hours or fees, because the pagoda has no official source. There is no openly licensed photo of this pagoda yet: every 'Chùa Liên Hoa' photo on Wikimedia Commons belongs to same-named pagodas in Hồ Chí Minh City and the United States.

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