Dong Dang Lang Son Mausoleum is a large temple of religious, historical, religious, and architectural value. This is also a famous spiritual and cultural tourist destination that you should not miss when you have the opportunity to visit Lang.
About Dong Dang Lang Son Mausoleum
The model temple of Dong Dang Lang Son, also known as “Dong Dang Linh Tu” is located in Dong Dang town, Lang Son province, located near Dong Dang market, about 4km from Huu Nghi border gate. This is also one of the famous temples in Lang Son that attracts tourists to visit and celebrate, especially at the beginning of the new year.
Mother Goddess Dong Dang Temple is a large temple with many cultural and spiritual values of the people of Lang in particular and the culture and beliefs of Vietnamese people in general. Every year the temple attracts a large number of tourists both domestic and foreign to come here. Mother Dong Dang Temple is the place to worship Buddha and Saint Mother Lieu Hanh. Tourists come here to visit the temple and offer incense to pray for a happy and prosperous life for peace and fame in their career, this is a typical journey for Lang Son tour.
Dong Dang Lang Son Mother Temple, also known as “Dong Dang Linh Tu”
Instructions on how to go to Mau Dong Dang Temple
Instructions on how to move to this Lang Son Mau temple , visitors can choose means of transportation by motorbike, car – car, bus or train. In general, transportation is convenient and there are many options for visitors.
– Private vehicle: Depart from Vinh Tuy bridge, Hanoi, go in the direction of Co Linh – Thach Ban Go to the address of lane 68 Nguyen Van Linh, then continue to enter the lane into Hanoi Bac Giang Expressway / National Highway 1A. Then you continue to go straight along the Hanoi Highway Bac Giang / National Highway 37 about 3km to the Bac Giang Lang Son expressway. Here you continue to move along Highway 1A about 42km, then turn left at Kim Dong to reach Mau Dong Dang Lang Son Temple .
– For bus: There are many buses you can catch at Giap Bat, Luong Yen or My Dinh bus stations, all of which have a direct route to Dong Dang. After arriving in Dong Dang, you can take a taxi or motorbike taxi to this tourist destination.
– Train: There are 2 train routes that are HDR and Lang Son – Cao Bang – Dong Dang train for tourists to choose from. When you reach Dong Dang town, you continue to take a motorbike taxi or taxi to reach Mau Lang Son temple. 
Instructions on how to go to Mau Dong Dang Temple
Visit the sacred Mother Dong Dang temple in Lang
Architecture of the Mau Dong Dang Lang Son Temple
Through the ups and downs of the history of Mau Dong Dang Temple, it has been embellished and restored many times. Currently, this temple has become more spacious but still retains the inherent ancient features. The temple’s worshiping area consists of 5 altars in all. In the innermost is the Tam Bao, here worshiping the sacred Bodhisattva Quan Am and worshiping Chuan De Buddha. Outside is the shrine of the Holy Mother of God. Including: Second Mother Thuong Ngan, Third Mother Thoai Phu and First Mother Thuong Thien. 
Architecture of Dong Dang Lang Son Mother Temple
In the main hall is the worshiping room of Lord Lieu. The two sides are Chau Luc and Chau Bo. On the right side of the altar is the worship of Son Trang. This includes Chua Chin and Chau Muoi Dong Mo. The space on the left side worships the fourth Kham Sai. In addition, it also worships saints, saints, and Trieu Duc Dai Vuong. 
The area from the entrance to the Mau temple đền
Outside the Mau Dong Dang Lang Son temple, there is a fairly spacious campus. At the temple’s three-door gate, it is built in the archway with many unique motifs and patterns. Especially in the stork yard, there are 2 elephants on the left and right covering the entrance to the temple. At the back of the temple there is also a stupa. However, this entrance is only open on occasions on festival days. 
The area for worshiping Mother at the temple
Mother Dong Dang Temple is associated with the legend of Mother Lieu Hanh
According to legend, in the late Le Mau period, Lieu Hanh’s daughter, Quynh Hoa, was sent to earth to help sentient beings. She was ordained by the imperial court as the Supreme Being of Phuc Than. On a visit to Lang Son, she saw an abandoned temple with a Buddha image, but no one had smoke incense. Later, when she met Phung Khac Khoan, who had just returned from a Chinese mission, she reminded him well to repair the temple to make it more spacious. Phung Khac Khoan listened to her to repair the temple and since then, Mother Dong Dang worshiped both Buddha and Mother Lieu Hanh.
Mother Dong Dang Temple is associated with the legend of Mother Lieu Hanh
When is the Dong Dang Mau Temple Festival held?
The time to organize the festival of Mau Dong Dang temple is on the 10th day of the first lunar month every year. At this time, the number of tourists coming here is very large. However, to ensure safety and prevent fire and explosion, the temple management board has a regulation that strictly prohibits all activities of burning incense and offering incense inside the temple. Therefore, according to the experience of going to the Mau Dong Dang Lang Son temple, visitors should only buy some fruit or cake gifts. The most important thing is to have a sincere heart.
Dong Dang Lang Son Mausoleum Festival
Some notes when going to Dong Dang model temple
Visiting the Dong Dang Mau Temple in Lang, you also need to know the following notes:
– Firstly, when visiting Dong Dang Mother Temple or other sacred places in Lang Son such as Mau Thuong Ngan Lang Son Temple or any other spiritual tourist destination, visitors need to pay attention to their attire. About dress: Need to dress elegantly. Do not wear shorts, revealing clothes, do not wear short skirts to sacred places.
– Second, when shopping for a ceremony tray, visitors don’t need to buy big, but it must be complete. You can choose to buy a vegetarian or a savory ceremony. A vegetarian ceremony cannot be complete without fruit, tea, and ceremony. With the salty ceremony, it is usually in the form of chicken, spring rolls, spring rolls, and pigs.
– Thirdly, if shopping for Son Trang festival, absolutely not use snails, crabs, eels, chili, lemons, instead must be vegetarian specialties of Vietnam.
– Fourth, when offering the Holy Mother of God, you should offer all 3 people, avoid offering 1 or 2 people.
– In the fifth year, the ceremony to worship her uncle: Usually toys for young children such as combs, flower incense, incense, and incense.
– Sixth, usually on holidays it will be very crowded so you can go on weekdays if you don’t want to be crowded.
Above is the whole experience of going to the Mau Dong Dang Lang Son temple that you should not miss, hoping to provide the most useful information for you when you have the opportunity to visit this famous spiritual place.
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