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Ven. Thich Nhat Tu was born in 1969. After completing secondary high school, he became a novice at 13 years old, under the spiritual guidance of the late Most Ven. Thich Thien Hue at Giac Ngo Temple and received full ordination in 1988.
Trịnh Công Sơn (February 28, 1939 – April 1, 2001) was a Vietnamese musician, songwriter, painter and poet. [1] [2] He is widely considered to be Vietnam's best songwriter.
Chân Không was born Cao Ngọc Phương [2] in 1938 in Bến Tre, French Indochina in the center of the Mekong Delta.As the eighth of nine children in a middle-class family, [3] her father taught her and her siblings the value of work and humility.
The name is sometimes called Địa danh chi Hán văn (地名之漢文). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is used in contrast to the tên Nôm (𠸛喃), or vernacular name, which are of native Vietnamese origin.
The zen monk Thích Nhất Hạnh also has used various Dharma names in the course of his career. [citation needed] If the student does not have a relationship with the monastic teacher and the ceremony is a public one with a congregation present, their new name will tend to reflect the lineage/tradition rather than the individual person. [1]
Hundreds of migrants waited in long lines outside an immigration office in southern Mexico on Monday, hoping to secure safe passage north and enter the U.S. legally before President-elect Donald ...
Thích Thanh Từ began his life in a well-educated family that followed Cao Đài, a Vietnamese religion founded in 1926. [1] He was born on July 24, 1924, in Cần Thơ, Vietnam with the birth name of Trần Hữu Phước. [1]
After surviving an assassination attempt in the Tucson mass shooting last January, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) resigned from Congress in January 2012. In the June special election, Jesse Kelly (R) — an Iraq War veteran who lost to Giffords in 2010 — was defeated by Ron Barber (D), Giffords' district director who was also wounded in Tucson.