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Asceticism [a] is a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from worldly pleasures, often for the purpose of pursuing spiritual goals. [3] Ascetics may withdraw from the world for their practices or continue to be part of their society, but typically adopt a frugal lifestyle, characterised by the renunciation of material possessions and physical pleasures, and also spend time fasting while ...
The Catholic Church in Vietnam is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of bishops in Vietnam who are in communion with the Pope in Rome. Vietnam has the fifth largest Catholic population in Asia, after the Philippines , India , China and Indonesia .
Nam dược thần hiệu by Tuệ Tĩnh. Various compendiums and treatises on traditional Vietnamese medicine include the 11-volume Nam dược thần hiệu by the 14th century physician Tuệ Tĩnh [9] and Hải Thượng y tông tâm lĩnh by the 18th century physician Hải Thượng Lãn Ông.
The first Catholic missionaries visited Vietnam from Portugal and Spain in the 16th century. In 1524, Portuguese merchant Duarte Coelho's fleet arrived in Hội An, central Vietnam, to trade, bringing along Catholic missionaries. [4] A missionary named I-nê-khu arrived in Nam Định, northern Vietnam, in 1533.
Nhất Chi Mai (February 20, 1934 – May 16, 1967), born Phan Thị Mai and legally named Thích nữ Diệu Huỳnh, was a Buddhist nun who killed herself in an act of self-immolation in Saigon on May 16, 1967, in protest at the Vietnam War.
A small bottle of rượu thuốc Rượu thuốc in Phú Quốc island. A popular type of rượu thuốc is snake wine (rượu rắn) for its placebo ability to cure multiple diseases including far sightedness, hair loss, back pain, digestive problems, fertility problems and even leprosy. [2]
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.
Our Lady of La Vang (Vietnamese: Đức Mẹ La Vang) refers to a reported Marian apparition at a time when Catholics were persecuted and killed in Vietnam.The Shrine of our Lady of La Vang (Basilica of Our Lady of La Vang) is situated in what is today Hải Phú commune in Hải Lăng District of Quảng Trị Province in Central Vietnam.