Bình Lâm

Bình Lâm lies in the mountainous upper Lô River country of Hà Giang. Its Buddhist temple preserves a bronze bell cast in 1295 under the Trần king Anh Tông. The local chief and his wife joined elders and other believers in contributing to its making. The inscription on the bell records a community and its religious life in a frontier region of Đại Việt.