Experience meditation and yoga on Yen Tu sacred mountain

After the COVID-19 pandemic, Yen Tu sacred mountain (Quang Ninh) became a leading destination in incorporating meditation and yoga into travel experiences. Currently, the meditation experience is very popular with tourists, monks, nuns, 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 tourism options that visitors can register to participate in when coming to Yen Tu Monuments and Scenic Area.

Sitting by the stream or on the ancient Xich Tung street, visitors are guided how to breathe, make hand signs, calmly feel the sound of the wind blowing, birds singing and the gurgling stream, 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 the Truc Lam Zen sect with strong Vietnamese cultural identity, so Yen Tu possesses many relics. Historical relics, pagodas, stupas, statues, stele, Buddhist architecture and sculpture, priceless tangible and intangible cultural heritage system. All create a dense and original Zen cultural space that is hard to find anywhere else in Vietnam. Coming to Yen Tu in the fall when the forest trees and natural scenery take on new vitality and energy, visitors can choose the journey "Follow the Buddha's footsteps". 

Participating in this experience, you will be offered incense at Hue Quang Golden Tower, where there is a Buddha statue over 300 years old. You will be guided to "meditate" through each stone step, especially moving on Xich Tung street, which is more than 300 years old. He was five years old and practiced deep meditation under the canopy of Elder Xich Tung, listening to meditation songs and feeling the energy accumulated over many generations of meditators and Buddhists who had set foot in this place.

The journey not only gives visitors the opportunity to feel the energy accumulated over generations of meditators and Buddhists who have set foot in this place, but also learn more about the great historical and 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, every person and every Buddhist who comes can absorb it. positive energies. 

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

Visitors can also choose agarwood meditation, meditating while enjoying the aroma of agarwood as a therapy that is both good for health and spirit, or choose tea meditation by the stream.

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

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

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