As its name indicates, the pagoda has its main altar and idol enshrined inside a cave. In the front stands a Bodhisattva statue and there’s an ancestral house on the right. The pagoda is decorated with carvings and statues of dragons and phoenixes.

The cave, 3.5 metres tall and seven metre wide, has two ground levels. The outer level has an area of 23 square metres and the inner one, 25 square metres.

Local legend has it that a Buddhist monk came here in the second century BC.

Buddha and Bodhisattva statues in the Tam Bảo Hall on the second floor of the three-story pagoda. 

Some photos of the pagoda:

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Chuong Pagoda features historical values in north Vietnam

Chuong (or Bell) Pagoda in the Red River Delta province of Hung Yen bears historical values of the land in northern Vietnam.