Monday, 17 December 2012 05:43

Xvayton Pagoda in An Giang province

Location: popularly recorded as the place with the most leaf prayer books in Vietnam in the Records Books, Xvayton Pagoda, the Khmer pagoda in the center of Tri Ton Town of Mekong Delta, An Giang Province, preserves about 150 series of prayer books on the leaves in its store.

The Head monk Chau Soc Pholly, the sixth generation of monks at the pagoda, said that the pagoda was originally constructed about three centuries a got on a wild area of dense bushes and little human settlement. According to his explanation, because this area is anciently a kingdom of monkeys, the Khmer inhabitants decided to build a pagoda and named it Xvayton (Xa Ton in Khmer language) which means “monkeys pulling each other by their tails".

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