Experience meditation and yoga on the sacred Yen Tu mountain

After the COVID-19 pandemic, the sacred Yen Tu mountain (Quang Ninh) has become a leading destination for incorporating meditation and yoga into tourism experiences. Currently, meditation experiences are very popular with tourists, monks, and Buddhists because they can immerse themselves in a dense and original meditation space that is hard to find anywhere else in Vietnam.

Sitting meditation and walking meditation are two of many meditation tour options that visitors can register to participate in when coming to Yen Tu Relics and Landscape Complex.

Sitting by the stream or on the ancient Xich Tung road, visitors are guided on how to breathe, form hand seals, and meditate while feeling the wind blowing, the birds chirping, and the babbling brook, in a quiet, sacred space...

Yen Tu Pagoda, Yen Tu Mountain, Nam Mau Village, Thuong Yen Cong Commune, Uong Bi City, Quang Ninh Province, is the birthplace of Truc Lam Zen sect with strong Vietnamese cultural identity, so Yen Tu owns many historical relics, pagodas, towers, statues, steles, Buddhist architecture and sculptures, a system of invaluable tangible and intangible cultural heritages. All create a dense and original Zen cultural space that is difficult to find anywhere else in Vietnam. Coming to Yen Tu in the fall when the forest trees and natural landscape are filled with new vitality and energy, visitors can choose the journey "Following the footsteps of the Buddha King".

Participating in this experience, you will offer incense at Hue Quang Kim Thap, where there is a statue of Buddha Emperor over 300 years old, be guided to "meditate" through each stone step, especially moving on the ancient Xich Tung road over 300 years old and practice deep meditation under the shade of the old Xich Tung tree, listen to Zen songs, feel the energy accumulated through many generations of Zen practitioners and Buddhists who have set foot in this place.

The journey not only gives visitors the opportunity to feel the energy accumulated through generations of Zen masters and Buddhists who have set foot in this place, but also to understand more about the historical and great values of Yen Tu.

In a pure and sacred place like Yen Tu, through many generations from Buddha Emperor Tran Nhan Tong to Zen masters, monks, and Buddhists, each person, each Buddhist who comes can absorb positive energy.

On holidays and at different times of the year, visitors can participate in many different meditation experiences: Lantern meditation on Vu Lan festival, moon meditation on full moon days, Mid-Autumn Festival...

Visitors can also choose to meditate while enjoying the scent of agarwood as a therapy that is both good for health and spirit, or choose to meditate with tea by the stream.

To complete the experience of Zen tourism, at Yen Tu, visitors are also prepared with vegetarian dishes and macrobiotic dishes, dishes whose names alone arouse curiosity and contain Zen philosophy such as "compassion, joy, equanimity".

In addition, there are many rustic but nutritious and delicious dishes such as termite mushroom soup, stir-fried bamboo shoots, etc., contributing to perfecting the experience for visitors when coming to the sacred land of Yen Tu.

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