Thanks to the cable car route, more and more tourists from all overlook to the spiritual complex on the sacred top of Fansipan to visit and worship.
Stretching from an altitude of 2,900 m to the area of Fansipan peak, Fansipan spiritual complex consists of 12 cultural and architectural works bearing the appearance of ancient Vietnamese temples from the 15th and 16th centuries. It is built with natural materials such as quartet wood, monolithic greenstone, glazed terracotta…, has a limited size, clings to the ground, leans on the tall young as if “sprung” out. from the mountain rocks hundreds of years ago.
The highlight of the Fansipan spiritual complex is Kim Son Bao Thang Tu – the largest Buddhist architecture on the top of Fansipan and also one of the few spiritual works with an altitude of over 3,000m above sea level. world. At the same time, the great Amitabha Buddha statue is also a special work when it is built by thousands of 5mm thick copper plates processed in situ, clad on an iron frame structure with a volume of nearly 1,000m3, once built by Prof. , Architect Hoang Dao Kinh rated it as “the bronze Buddha statue created the most outstanding feat in Vietnam”.
In April 2021, on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the inauguration of the Fansipan cable car line and the Sun World Fansipan Legend tourist area, the great Amitabha Buddha statue on the top of Fansipan was awarded the record “Amitabha Buddha statue” by the Asian Records organization. The bronze Amitabha is located at the highest elevation in Asia.
The appearance of Buddhist works at Sun World Fansipan Legend has contributed to “re-identifying” the top of Fansipan, from a mountain known for its height and challenges to conquer, now becoming a central destination. sacred.
Since the cable car and spiritual works, every year, on great Buddhist occasions, many groups of Buddhists from all over the world flock to Fansipan to worship, worship, pray for peace and ask for fortune.
Building a spiritual architecture is not too difficult. But to build a large population located at an altitude of 3,000 m in harsh natural conditions, almost entirely by human power in order to minimize the encroachment on nature is not an easy problem. But with Sun Group – an enterprise marked by creating many difficult projects before, it is different.
According to business representatives, their motivation is the desire for a project that bears a timeless mark, preserving and honoring Vietnamese culture. Therefore, the main materials to build the Fansipan spiritual complex are large stone slabs, wooden pillars and hundreds of tons of copper, both to ensure longevity with time, but also to reproduce. original” as much as possible the quintessence of Vietnamese pagoda architecture from hundreds of years ago. Hundreds of workers, engineers and experts Sun Group and contractors, in a few hundred days and nights, ate the forest, slept in the mountains, bathed in dew, pedaled snow, and persistently carried hundreds of thousands of tons of materials to the top of the sky… to fulfill this aspiration.
“Carving in the mountains the works of Vietnamese pagodas from the 15th and 16th centuries, creating a world-recognised cultural destination at the sacred peak of Fansipan, where the country’s rooster is located, that is also a way for Sun Group contribute to increasing the attraction for tourism in Sapa and Lao Cai,” he said.
And these tectonics have brought a clear change to the tourism industry of this northern mountainous province. According to data from the beginning of 2018 (the time of the inauguration of the Fansipan spiritual complex) to the end of 2019 of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Lao Cai, the number of visitors to Lao Cai increased from 3.5 to 5.1 million. . Sun World Fansipan Legend has also been recognized by the international tourism community with the awards of “World’s Leading Cultural Tourist Destination” (2019, 2020) and “World’s Leading Natural Attraction Tourist Spot” ” (2020) at the World Travel Awards.
Most Venerable Thich Nhat Tu, Member of the Executive Council of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha, Deputy Head of the Central Committee for Dissemination of the Laws of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha shared: “The work serves as a reminder to generations of Vietnamese people to be self-disciplined. proud of traditional culture, independence and sovereignty, responsible for preserving and developing the values of the Vietnamese people that their ancestors have worked so hard to build”. Follow vnexpress