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Nhất Hạnh was born Nguyễn Xuân Bảo on 11 October 1926, in the ancient capital of Huế in central Vietnam. [13] [7] [14] He is 15th generation Nguyễn Đình; the poet Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, author of Lục Vân Tiên, was his ancestor. [15] His father, Nguyễn Đình Phúc, from Thành Trung village in Thừa Thiên, Huế, was an ...
It is the main religion in Vietnam. Vietnamese Buddhism is generally inclusive and syncretic, drawing on the main Chinese Buddhist traditions, such as Tiantai (Vietnamese: Thiên Thai) and Huayan (Hoa Nghiêm), Zen ( Thiền ), and Pure Land (Tịnh Độ). [1] [2] [3] Buddhism may have first come to Vietnam as early as the 3rd or 2nd century ...
Thích Thiên-Ân (釋天恩) (September 22, 1925—November 23, 1980) was an American teacher and Buddhist monk of Vietnamese Thiền ( Zen) Buddhism and was active in the United States from 1966 to 1980. [1] He was ordained at Chua Chau Lam in Hue, Vietnam. Thích Thiên-Ân came to the United States from Vietnam in the summer of 1966 as an ...
Đàn tranh. A man playing the đàn tranh beside the singer. The đàn tranh ( Vietnamese: [ɗâːn ʈajŋ̟], 彈 箏) or đàn thập lục [1] is a plucked zither of Vietnam, based on the Chinese guzheng, from which are also derived the Japanese koto, the Korean gayageum and ajaeng, the Mongolian yatga, the Sundanese kacapi and the Kazakh ...
The Blue Cliff Record (Chinese: 碧巖錄; pinyin: Bìyán Lù; Japanese: 碧巌録; rōmaji: Hekiganroku; Korean: 벽암록; romaja: Byeokamrok; Vietnamese: Bích nham lục) is a collection of Chan Buddhist kōans originally compiled in Song China in 1125, during the reign of Emperor Huizong, and then expanded into its present form by Chan master Yuanwu Keqin (1063–1135; Japanese ...
v. t. e. Buddha depicted in dhyāna, Amaravati, India. In the oldest texts of Buddhism, dhyāna ( Sanskrit: ध्यान) or jhāna ( Pali: 𑀛𑀸𑀦) is a component of the training of the mind ( bhavana ), commonly translated as meditation, to withdraw the mind from the automatic responses to sense-impressions, "burn up" the defilements ...
