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English summary on page 93 as follows: There exists until now in the archaeological area of Con Son, an important Tran Buddhist center, the Dang Minh stupa built of stone, otherwise called funerary stupa of monk Huyen Quang (erected in 1719), the third patriarch of the Truc Lam (Bamboo Forest) sect under the Tran. It was inscribed on the stela at the rear of the stupa: "An early morning the work being set, all the subjects are clustering to repairing the ancient sites, brick and tiles being replaced by precious stone". So the Dang Minh stupa of ancient time having been built of briek is seen no more. That brick stupa is recently discovered. In March 1975, we have recovered many pieces of terracotta, having been served for building the stupa that would have been further covered by the stone one. It could be assembled with these pieces into a nearly complete three tiered stupa of 2.7m high (lacking the pinacle) on a square plan. The decorative patterns on the stupa as waves, scrolls, lotus flowers, lemon flowers, bodhi leaves, dragons,... all of them are of the Tran's style.
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