Buddhist meditation covers both meditative concentration and the Zen school, arriving in Vietnam from the early Common Era and thriving under the Lý and Trần.
An overview of traditional Vietnamese festivals: agricultural, religious, commemorative, and ethnic festivals. Classification, meaning, and cultural value.
Hexagram 11, Earth over Heaven Tai, has inner Qian and outer Kun, heaven and earth in harmony. It covers the judgment, image, six line texts and commentaries.
Tử Vi dates the birth year from the first day of Tết, Bát Tự from the Lập Xuân solar term. How each fixes age and why some births shift stem-branch year.
Hexagram 56 Hỏa Sơn Lữ concerns the way of the wanderer in a strange land: small success, staying upright, humility brings peace, arrogance invites disaster.
Saint Mother Liễu Hạnh, the only female saint among the Four Immortals, is tied to the three descents to earth and to the Three Realms Mother Goddess worship.
Thủy Hỏa Ký Tế (No. 63) is the only hexagram with all six lines in correct position and paired. It teaches small success and a good start but chaotic end.
In Việt Nam phong tục, tế ngu counts from burial: sơ ngu on the burial day, tam ngu on the third. The 49th, 100th day and first anniversary count from death.
Thăng Long Tứ Tran is four temples guarding the old capital: Bạch Mã in the east, Voi Phục in the west, Kim Liên in the south, Quán Thánh in the north.
Kỳ yên at Bình Thủy communal house, Cần Thơ: Thượng điền on the 12th-14th of the fourth lunar month, Hạ điền on the 14th-15th of the twelfth. Rites explained.
Bà Phi Yến's death anniversary falls on the 18th of the tenth lunar month at An Sơn Miếu, Côn Đảo. The legendary figure, the rites and the heritage debate.
Early 20th-century custom books record the lễ mát nhà rite and bùa trấn trạch talisman: who performed them, where it was posted, and Phan Kế Bính's critique.
Nhị thập bát tú trực nhật assigns 28 stars to rule days in a cycle, tied to diễn cầm and date selection. This article analyses its origins and calculation.
Nguyễn Công Trứ's death anniversary, 14th day of the Eleventh Lunar Month in Nghi Xuân, Hà Tĩnh: 22 Dec 2026, rites, his life and the founding of Tiền Hải.
Vietnamese worship customs vary by region and ethnicity through environment, migration, and cultural exchange, not through one practice being more correct.
Celestial Executioner (Tian Zhan Sha) forms when a straight road, corridor or gap points at a house. See how to spot it and which remedies may deflect it.