Qualla: Hoằng Phúc Temple https://qualla.com/hoang-phuc-temple en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:18 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/5/c/hoang-phuc-temple-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Hoằng Phúc Temple https://qualla.com/hoang-phuc-temple Hoằng Phúc Temple: Introduction https://qualla.com/hoang-phuc-temple/ Photo credit Genghiskhan, CC BY-SA 4.0. For thirty years the most substantial thing at Hoằng Phúc was a gate that led nowhere. The temple behind it had come down in the storm of 1985 — typhoon number twelve, in the Vietnamese numbering — and what the wind left standing was a stone gateway, the outline of a foundation, a handful of old Buddha figures and a bronze bell weighing eighty kilograms, a little over a metre tall and half a metre across. Seven hundred years of continuous religious use, reduced to an entrance and the things too heavy to blow away.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/5/c/hoang-phuc-temple-wp/w75c-ho-ng-ph-c-temple-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Hoằng Phúc Temple: A King Who Stopped Being King https://qualla.com/hoang-phuc-temple/ Photo credit Genghiskhan, CC BY-SA 4.0. The story begins with a man who walked away from a throne. Trần Nhân Tông had ruled Đại Việt through the Mongol invasions, then abdicated, took monastic vows, and founded the Trúc Lâm school of Vietnamese Zen — which is why Vietnamese sources still call him Phật hoàng, the Buddha...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/5/c/hoang-phuc-temple-wp/w75c-ho-ng-ph-c-temple-a-king-who-stopped-being-king.mp3 0:06 2 full Hoằng Phúc Temple: Three Names, Three Dynasties https://qualla.com/hoang-phuc-temple/ Photo credit Genghiskhan, CC BY-SA 4.0. Each time Vietnam's rulers changed, the temple's name changed with them, which makes its signboard a rough chronology of the state. In 1716 the Nguyễn lord Nguyễn Phúc Chu renamed it Kính Thiên tự, the Temple of Reverence for Heaven. Just over a century later, in 1821, the Nguyễn...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/5/c/hoang-phuc-temple-wp/w75c-ho-ng-ph-c-temple-three-names-three-dynasties.mp3 0:06 3 full Hoằng Phúc Temple: Storm Number Twelve https://qualla.com/hoang-phuc-temple/ Photo credit Genghiskhan, CC BY-SA 4.0. This coast takes a beating. Quảng Bình sits directly in the path of the typhoons that come off the South China Sea between September and November, and the temple had already been rebuilt several times over the centuries before the 1985 storm finished it. Nothing much survived tha...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/5/c/hoang-phuc-temple-wp/w75c-ho-ng-ph-c-temple-storm-number-twelve.mp3 0:06 4 full Hoằng Phúc Temple: Building It Back https://qualla.com/hoang-phuc-temple/ Photo credit Genghiskhan, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reconstruction began on 30 November 2014 and cost 40.4 billion đồng. The completed temple was inaugurated on 16 January 2016 in front of an audience that said something about how far the site's reputation had travelled: officials from the Vietnamese government, monks from the Bud...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/5/c/hoang-phuc-temple-wp/w75c-ho-ng-ph-c-temple-building-it-back.mp3 0:06 5 full Hoằng Phúc Temple: A Relic from Shwedagon https://qualla.com/hoang-phuc-temple/ Photo credit Genghiskhan, CC BY-SA 4.0. The inauguration came with a gift. Myanmar's Buddhist sangha presented Hoằng Phúc with śarīra of Shakyamuni Buddha — relic remains, the most consequential object one Buddhist community can give another — brought from the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon. Later that year, between 27 Mar...

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