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The Lotus Tower, more popularly known as the One Pillar Pagoda, stands in the park behind the HCM museum. It is dedicated to Quan Am who is revered throughout Asia as the Goddess of Mercy. According to legend, more than a thousand years ago in a dream, King Ly Thai Tong was led to Quan Am who was sitting on a lotus tower. She led him to a woman in the fields who became his wife and bore his heir. So in 1049 he built the Dien Huu (Lasting Life) Pagoda to honor Quan Am. Once part of a large complex, the Pagoda is now just a small cluster of buildings centered by the one-pillar Lotus Tower.
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