Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The Autumn Keo Pagoda Festival in Hưng Yên honors Zen Master Dương Không Lộ with palanquin processions, the frog dance and boat racing.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism Vạn Hạnh was a monk of the Lý era, linked to the story of Lý Công Uẩn. His verse Thị đệ tử speaks of impermanence, life and death, rise and decline.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Từ 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 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Keo Hành Thiện Pagoda Festival in Ninh Bình falls in mid-Ninth lunar month, honoring Zen Master Dương Không Lộ with boat racing and folk games.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism Huyền Quang (Lý Đạo Tái), third patriarch of the Trúc Lâm Zen school after Trần Nhân Tông and Pháp Loa, is profiled via his life, deeds and surviving poetry.
Updated 22 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism What is a koan, and why did the Gateless Gate and the Blue Cliff Record become the two key Chan collections? Origins, structure and how to read them.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism The 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 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › Numerology Explore the Master Numbers 11, 22, and 33 in numerology, their origins, traits, life purpose, challenges, and practical applications.
Updated 11 Jul 2026 Modern system
Dictionary › Feng shui Xuan Kong Flying Stars is a school of feng shui that uses the nine stars flying through time and directions to assess auspiciousness for dwellings and graves.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Thẩm Trúc Nhưng, a Qing geomancy master of the Huyền Không school, is named in Trạch vận tân án as the one who published the Hoán tinh formula.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Numerology Discover Life Path Number 33, the rarest master number in numerology: profound compassion, a healing calling, ideal careers, and the challenges it brings.
Updated 20 Jun 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZi Duong Nhan is the branch one position before Loc of a yang stem, the same as Đế Vượng. See how to look it up by day master and where schools disagree.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZi Không vong in Bát Tự marks the two earthly branches missing from each ten-day can chi cycle. How to look it up, and where the old books disagree on it.
Updated 14 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Numerology Life Path Number 22, the Master Builder, blends the vision of 11 with the practicality of 4, turning grand dreams into real achievements under heavy pressure.
Updated 10 Jul 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui The wealth position at home: Bát Trạch finds Sinh Khí by life trigram, Huyền Không by the ruling star, the popular way by the door's diagonal.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Địa Không in the Six Killers of Zi Wei: its origin, nature, palace meanings, ways to soften its effects, and a multidimensional view of this malefic star.
Updated 16 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Numerology Discover Life Path Number 11, a master number in numerology: powerful intuition, an inspiring presence, ideal careers, and the challenges to overcome.
Updated 3 Jul 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Hồi đầu sinh, hồi đầu khắc, hóa không, hóa mộ, hóa tuyệt are the ways a moving line transforms in Lục Hào, explained via Tăng San Bốc Dịch.
Updated 14 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Khổng Minh Thần Toán is a 384-card divination book matching 64 hexagrams with six moving lines, credited to Gia Cát Lượng by legend, not by histories.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Tuần không in Lục Hào: the two branches missing from a ten-day cycle, how to find them for the six Giáp cycles, and what Tăng san bốc dịch says.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Chính Thần is the ruling period direction, Linh Thần the opposite palace. How to tell Chính Thủy from Linh Thủy and locate Thành Môn in each period.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Vượng sơn vượng hướng in Huyền Không phi tinh: why it ranks as the best pattern, and why no main facing direction achieves it in Period 9.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Địa lý biện chính của Tưởng Đại Hồng chú giải năm kinh cổ, đính chính bản sai lưu truyền và đặt nền lý khí Tam Nguyên cho phái Huyền Không.
Updated 22 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Địa Không and Địa Kiếp in Vietnamese Tử Vi: placed by birth hour from the Hợi palace, sharing a palace at Hợi or Tỵ, with đắc and hãm by each book.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional dress The traditional costumes of the Lô Lô people in Hà Giang are a brocade masterpiece, with hand embroidery and vivid colors on pants, shirts, scarves and hats.
Updated 26 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief The Lô Lô people of Mèo Vạc, Hà Giang reenacted their Rain Prayer and Village Cleansing rituals at the 2024 Lô Lô Cultural Festival.
Updated 2 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Thượng sơn hạ thủy in Huyền Không phi tinh: what the pattern is, which sitting and facing directions fall into it by period, and what the old book says.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Lô Lô live in Hà Giang, Cao Bằng and Lào Cai, speak a Tibeto-Burman language, and are split into the Flowery Lô Lô and Black Lô Lô.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worship The Lô Lô people in Hà Giang hold an ancestor worship ceremony, a national intangible heritage, with the Ma Co dance in grass costumes as its highlight.
Updated 4 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Tam Long traces a dragon vein from its distant source peak through to tong son, thieu to son and phu mau son to where it settles.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism The 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 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › Philosophy of science Falsifiability is Karl Popper's test: a theory is scientific only if observation could contradict it. He used astrology as a system that cannot be wrong.
Updated 13 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Feng shui split into two main schools over a thousand years: Jiangxi reads terrain forms, while Fujian li qi calculates with a compass.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites Vietnamese custom does not require the 49th-day memorial on the exact day. Many families hold it early or late, choosing the nearest date.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Lunar calendar Hàn Lộ is the 17th of the 24 solar terms, beginning around October 8 when the Sun reaches 195 degrees. Learn its meaning and customs.
Updated 16 Oct 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Mường Lò Cultural and Tourism Festival 2026 runs 1 to 7 October in Lào Cai, opening 20:00 on 2 October and marking five years of UNESCO-listed Thai Xoe.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Lộ Bàng Thổ is the nay am of Canh Ngọ and Tân Mùi years in the Sexagenary Cycle, part of the Earth element in Zi Wei Dou Shu.
Updated 23 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching In Liu Yao, a moving line and the changed line it turns into are read as a pair, producing hoi dau sinh, hoi dau khac, hoa tien than, hoa thoai than and more.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Tarot After a breakup, tarot can help name your feelings and review the relationship, but it cannot say whether your ex will return.
Updated 23 Sept 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Eastern › Buddhism Sun Moon Lamp Light Buddha is the last of twenty thousand Buddhas sharing one title in the Lotus Sutra's opening chapter.
Updated 16 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Duyên 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 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Learn 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 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism Amitābha Buddha's Day, 17th of the 11th lunar month (25 Dec 2026): why this date was chosen, what the sutra says, and how Vietnamese pagodas observe it.
Updated 2 Nov 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism 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.
Updated 11 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism Luy 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 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worship The Buddha altar usually sits higher than the ancestor altar, but the exact layout depends on each home's space and regional or family tradition.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Dictionary › Bát Tự (Four Pillars) The Day Master (Nhật Chủ) is the Heavenly Stem of the Day Pillar in a Four Pillars chart and the central reference point for reading it.
Updated 11 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui 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.
Updated 27 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
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