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Ching Hai was born to a Vietnamese mother and an ethnic Chinese father, [15] on 12 May 1950 in a small village in the Quảng Ngãi Province in Vietnam. [16] At the age of 18, she moved to England to study and later to France and then Germany, where she worked for the Red Cross. [17]
Jinghai Circuit (Tĩnh Hải quân) was created in 866 by the Chinese general Gao Pian as a Tang fanzhen ("buffer town") in the former Annan Duhufu (Protectorate General to Pacify the South) after retaking it from Nanzhao, which had invaded and captured the area in 863. [1]
Guanyin Famen or Quan Yin Buddhism (Chinese: 觀音法門), the teachings of Meditation Society of ROC (Chinese: 中華民國禪定學會) or Ching Hai World Society (Chinese: 清海世界會), is a new religious school of Mahayana Buddhism founded in 1988 by the ethnic-Chinese Vietnamese teacher Ching Hai.
Laozi, one of the most important gods in Lingbao Daoism. The Lingbao School (simplified Chinese: 灵宝派; traditional Chinese: 靈寶派; pinyin: Líng Bǎo Pài), also known as the School of the Sacred Jewel or the School of Numinous Treasure, was an important Daoist school that emerged in China in between the Jin dynasty and the Liu Song dynasty in the early fifth century CE.
Chinese astrology — also known as Shu Xiang — dates back more than 2,000 years. Similar to traditional Western astrology, the Chinese zodiac has 12 zodiac signs that can determine a person's ...
Ching Hai initiates her followers a meditation method called the "Quan Yin Method" to achieve enlightenment; followers also revere Ching Hai as an incarnation of Guanyin. Shinji Shumeikai acknowledges Guanyin or Kannon in Japanese as the deity of compassion or the Goddess of Mercy, who was actively guiding the founder Meishusama and represents ...
Zhongli Quan (鍾離權), associated with death and the power to create silver and gold, often depicted holding a fan. In literature before the 1970s, they were sometimes translated as the Eight Genies. Some stories had them all "cheerfully addicted to wine", so they were called the "Jiu-zhong Ba Xian" or "Eight Drunken Immortals". [6]
The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils is a Chinese television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils.It is produced by the companies Zhejiang Hua Ce Media and Dong Yang Da Qian Media, and directed by Hong Kong television series director Lai Shui-ching.