Vietnam: Monk, Chua Con Son Pagoda, east of Hanoi
Chua Con Son was a temple built to honour the poet-warrior Nguyen Trai (1380–1442), chief adviser and amanuensis to Le Loi, the general who expelled the Ming Chinese from Vietnam in 1427 and, in 1428, assumed the throne as Emperor Le Thai To.
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