Dong Quang Pagoda stands opposite to Dong Da Hillock in Quang Trung ward

Dong Quang Pagoda stands opposite to Dong Da Hillock in Quang Trung ward, Dong Da district. Visitors can go there by car, bicycle, motorbike, or cyclo. The pagoda was built about 200 years ago when a mandarin named Dang Hau ordered to collect the corpses of Qing invaders after the Dong Da victory in 1789. The corpses were buried en masse in a stupa which was later enlarged into Dong Quang Pagoda. It is dedicated to the cult of Buddha and fallen soldiers in the Dong Da great battle.

The frame and wooden objects are part of the pagoda’s decoration. They include bed- heads, rafters and cau dau. Common decorative patterns are stylized tigers, dragons and clouds. The roofs margin is well decorated with floral and tiger bas-reliefs. The ends of the beam-trusses and rafters are elegantly engraved with motifs of bamboo and apricot trees, the chrysanthemum, tung tree (a kind of plant similar to the pine trees) and loc (deers). These patterns are characteristic of the art of engraving in the 20^th century. The collection of Buddha statues, stone steles and bells kept at the pagoda are over 1,000 years old.