White horse in the Bach-Ma Temple

Weißes Pferd im Bac Ma Tempel

The picture shows the figure of a white horse in the Bach-Ma Temple in Hanoi, Vietnam. In Daoism (also: Taoism), it belongs to the historical and mythical figures of popular religion. According to this tradition, the white horse Bach-Ma once flew into the sky and showed Hanoi’s founder the best place to build the city.

White horse in the Bach- Ma temple, color photography, 2004, photographer: Greg Willis; source: Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bac_Ma_Temple_-_there%27s_the_white_horse.jpg, Creative Commons Some Rights Reserved Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en.