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Collection of Outstanding Figures of the Zen Garden (chữ Hán: 禪苑集英, Vietnamese: Thiền uyển tập anh) is a Literary Chinese Vietnamese Zen Buddhist biographical text dating to 1337.
Philippe Nguyễn Kim Điền was born on March 13, 1921, in Long Đức, Vietnam. [1] After being ordained a priest in 1947 and serving as a professor and later rector of the seminary, he joined the Little Brothers of Jesus. [2] After joining the order for sometime, Dien worked as a street cleaner and a rag picker in Saigon. [3]
Nguyễn Thiện Nhân (Vietnamese pronunciation: [ŋwiən˦ˀ˥ tʰiən˧˨ʔ ɲən˧˧]; born 12 June 1953) is a Vietnamese economist, engineer, professor and politician. He is currently a member of the National Assembly representing Ho Chi Minh City, where he served as its party secretary (de facto mayor) from 2017 until his retirement in 2020.
A watercolor painting depicting the pantheon of the Four Palaces denomination in Vietnam's indigenous Đạo Mẫu shamanic belief.. Four Palaces (Vietnamese: Tứ Phủ; chữ Hán: 四府) is a major denomination of the Đạo Mẫu, an indigenous shamanic belief in Vietnam.
The traditional record about Mai Thúc Loan's uprising in historical chronicales of Vietnamese dynasties was brief, for example the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư of Ngô Sĩ Liên only acknowledged that there was a rebellion led by the rebel leader Mai Thúc Loan in 722 with the said army of 30,000 soldiers with allies from Champa, Lâm ...
The Four Great Treasures of Annam (Vietnamese: An Nam tứ đại khí, chữ Hán: 安南四大器), were four bronzes of the cultures of Lý and Trần dynasties of Vietnam: the Báo Thiên Pagoda, the Quy Điền Bell, the Buddha Statues of Quỳnh Lâm Temple and the Phổ Minh Caldron. [1] None of these artifacts survived.
On August 12, Kim's outgoing government was retained as "Provisional Government" to oversee the day-to-day running of the country. Kim asked Bảo Đại to issue an imperial order on August 14 repealing the treaties of Saigon of 1862 and 1874, thus removing the last French claims to sovereign rights over Vietnam. Messengers were sent from the ...
Khiêm graduated from the Vietnamese National Military Academy in Đà Lạt on 12 July 1947. [1] He became a 1st Lieutenant in June 1948 and served in the Vietnamese National Army of the French-backed State of Vietnam of Emperor Bảo Đại, which fought the Việt Minh of Hồ Chí Minh. Khiêm was appointed captain in 1951 and major in July ...