Knowledge › Vietnam › BuddhismVietnamese Buddhism over nearly twenty centuries: the Luy Lâu centre, fusion with local beliefs, the Lý and Trần flourishing.
Updated 22 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › BuddhismThe Buddhist revival in Vietnam from the 1920s: three regional associations, their journals, and the books of Trần Trọng Kim and Phan Văn Hùm.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk beliefTừ Đạo Hạnh, Nguyễn Minh Không and Dương Không Lộ in Lĩnh Nam chích quái are tales of wonder about three monks of the Lý era, told as tales.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk beliefVietnamese star worship and misfortune resolution (dâng sao giải hạn) at lunar new year: its Taoist origins, cultural meaning, and a Buddhist view.
Updated 22 Jun 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › BuddhismThe Trúc Lâm Yên Tử school founded by Trần Nhân Tông: its three patriarchs and the idea of cư trần lạc đạo, living in the world yet glad in the Way.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › BuddhismLuy Lâu is seen as one of the earliest places Buddhism reached Giao Châu, linked with chùa Dâu, the Tứ Pháp cult and Mâu Tử's Lý hoặc luận.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk taboosGhost Month in the 7th lunar month: its origins, common folk taboos, and the Buddhist view of Vu Lan as a season of gratitude and filial piety.
Updated 23 Jun 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk beliefDa Nang's largest Buddhist festival, Quan The Am at Ngu Hanh Son runs each second lunar month and is national intangible cultural heritage.
Updated 20 Jun 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › BuddhismThe Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path are the foundation of Buddhism, analyzed through Pali scriptures, philosophy, and levels of practice.
Updated 11 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle ritesThe grave-opening ceremony about three days after burial in southern Vietnam: the offerings, the folk meaning of chick, ladder and sugarcane, a Buddhist view.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I ChingÁm động is a strong static line clashed by the day; nhật phá is a weak one. How Tăng San Bốc Dịch tells the two apart when reading a hexagram.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I ChingMonth leader and day spirit set each line's strength in a Liu Yao hexagram, covering void in the decade, month breaker, and hidden movement.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk beliefJoss paper is a symbolic exchange between the living and ancestors or spirits, covering its origins, len dong rituals and Buddhist critiques.
Updated 27 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing artsCa tru is an ancient Vietnamese chamber singing form with a dao nuong, a kep dan and a quan vien cam chau. This article explains its structure and revival.
Updated 23 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyTiểu Hao, a Hao phá auxiliary star, governs dissipation, movement and money volatility. This analyses its positions, combinations and correct reading.
Updated 3 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › TarotExplore the in-depth meaning of the 8 of Wands in Tarot: its symbolism, swift movement, sudden news, and practical life advice.
Updated 10 Sept 2026Modern system
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figuresEmperor Quang Trung (Nguyen Hue) led the Tay Son movement and crushed 290,000 Qing troops at Ngoc Hoi - Dong Da in 1789.
Updated 14 Aug 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnamese commemorative daysLearn about the origin of International Labor Day on May 1 from the 1886 Chicago workers' movement and its significance in Vietnam through the periods.
Updated 25 Jun 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyLearn what relief stars and fate-mitigating stars are in Vietnamese astrology, their origins, and their real limits from Buddhist and cultural perspectives.
Updated 1 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk beliefThe Huong Pagoda Festival is Northern Vietnam's largest Buddhist festival, tied to the legend of Quan Am Thi Kinh at Huong Tich Cave.
Updated 24 Jul 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk beliefThe Hungry Ghost Festival on the 15th day of the 7th lunar month blends Buddhist and Taoist roots, with offerings for wandering spirits.
Updated 13 Jun 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyA Buddhist and psychological analysis of bad luck in Vietnamese astrology, helping you understand without fear and take proactive control of your life.
Updated 21 Jul 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyA Buddhist view of why a favorable year in Vietnamese astrology can breed complacency, and why good fortune is only a supporting condition.
Updated 22 Jun 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyThien Ma (Heavenly Horse) in Zi Wei Dou Shu: its origins in ancient astronomy, placement by birth year, and its meaning of movement, change and opportunities.
Updated 14 Jun 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnamese commemorative daysLearn about the origin of International Women's Day on March 8 from the 1908 New York garment workers' movement and its meaning in honoring women worldwide.
Updated 2 Aug 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › BuddhismLunar memorial days for Shakyamuni Buddha, Guanyin, Ksitigarbha, Manjushri, Samantabhadra and other Bodhisattvas, with origins and practice notes.
Updated 17 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle ritesExhumation for reburial usually follows the end of mourning, often after three to five years; current rules require at least 36 months. What to know.
Updated 11 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › BuddhismBuddhist meditation covers both meditative concentration and the Zen school, arriving in Vietnam from the early Common Era and thriving under the Lý and Trần.
Updated 11 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › BuddhismThe five precepts of lay Buddhists: no killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying or intoxicants, as the Pali suttas state them, and practice in Vietnam.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › BuddhismCư trần lạc đạo phú by Trần Nhân Tông: ten sections in Nôm and a closing verse in Hán, on living in the world while delighting in the Way.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsWhy Buddha's Birthday falls on the 8th or the 15th of the fourth lunar month, and how the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha holds Vesak Week each year.
Updated 13 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Festival customsLearn about the Buddhist origins of Vu Lan on the 15th day of the 7th lunar month, the legend of Mục Kiền Liên, filial piety, and the rose-pinning ceremony.
Updated 30 Jul 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk traditional practicesDream interpretation in Vietnamese folklore, from spiritual omens to how modern science explains dreams and the subconscious.
Updated 28 Aug 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communitiesComparing Lunar New Year of the Kinh, Chol Chnam Thmay of the Khmer, and ethnic groups with their own calendars: timing, offerings, rituals, and names.
Updated 19 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle ritesFuneral rites in northern Vietnam, from shrouding and encoffining to thành phục, the burial and the ngu rites that follow, as old ritual books record.
Updated 11 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk beliefVietnamese people rarely follow one religion; they layer ancestor worship, Thành hoàng, Mother Goddess, Hùng Vương and farming rites in daily life.
Updated 3 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › BuddhismThe three Chan lineages of the Lý era: Tì Ni Đa Lưu Chi, Vô Ngôn Thông and Thảo Đường. Their origins, transmission and how scholars read them.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk beliefDuyên phận is a folk way of speaking about meetings as if preordained. Nhân duyên in Buddhism means conditions that give rise to phenomena, not fate.
Updated 22 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsThe Yen Tu Festival honours Emperor-Buddha Tran Nhan Tong, founder of the Truc Lam Zen sect, with its rituals and spiritual meaning.
Updated 13 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsVesak marks the birth of Shakyamuni Buddha, and its date differs between Theravada and Mahayana traditions. The bathing ritual symbolizes inner purification.
Updated 4 Sept 2026Culture and belief
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