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Except this there are various recitations mentioned in Pali literature for taking refuge in the Three Jewels. Brett Shults proposes that Pali texts may employ the Brahmanical motif of a group of three refuges, as found in Rig Veda 9.97.47, Rig Veda 6.46.9 and Chandogya Upanishad 2.22.3-4. [15]
Vietnam, [e] [f] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, [g] [h] is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
The sources for the reconstruction of Old Vietnamese are Nom texts, such as the 12th-century/1486 Buddhist scripture Phật thuyết Đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh ("Sūtra explained by the Buddha on the Great Repayment of the Heavy Debt to Parents"), [42] old inscriptions, and a late 13th-century (possibly 1293) Annan Jishi glossary ...
[9] [10] France reduced Vietnam to a French dependency in 1883, followed by an occupation of Japanese army. Political upheaval and communist insurrection put an end to the monarchy after World War II, and the country was proclaimed a republic in 1945. Internal conflicts between communists and non-communists broke out immediately.