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Article 344 of the Nguyen dynasty code and Article 305 of the Le dynasty code both forbade self-castration and castration of Vietnamese men. [35] Self-castration of Vietnamese men was banned by Lê Thánh Tông, the emperor, in 1464. [36] The Vietnamese under Emperor Le Thanh Tong cracked down on foreign contacts and enforced an isolationist ...
A depiction of Lê Lợi. Thuận Thiên (順天, lit. "to obey, to accord with, to comply with Heaven") was the mythical sword of the Vietnamese Emperor Lê Lợi, who liberated Vietnam from Ming occupation after ten years of fighting from 1418 until 1428. [1]
A religious symbol is an iconic representation intended to represent a specific religion, or a specific concept within a given religion. [ 1 ] Religious symbols have been used in the military in many countries, such as the United States military chaplain symbols .
In Chinese philosophy, a taijitu (Chinese: 太極圖; pinyin: tàijítú; Wade–Giles: tʻai⁴chi²tʻu²) is a symbol or diagram (圖; tú) representing taiji (太極; tàijí; 'utmost extreme') in both its monist and its dualist (yin and yang) forms in application is a deductive and inductive theoretical model.
This syncretic religion, dubbed as "Ly dynasty religion" by Taylor, embraces the amalgamating worship of Buddhism, Indian Buddhist deities Indra and Brahma, and Cham folk legend Lady Po Nagar. [ 173 ] [ 174 ] The Lý dynasty religion later was absorbed into Vietnamese folk religion .
Đạo is a Sino-Vietnamese word for "religion," similar to the Chinese term dao meaning "path," while Mẫu means "mother" and is loaned from Middle Chinese /məuX/. While scholars like Ngô Đức Thịnh propose that it represents a systematic worship of mother goddesses, Đạo Mẫu draws together fairly disparate beliefs and practices.
Taegeuk (Korean: 태극; Hanja: 太極, Korean pronunciation: [tʰɛgɯk̚]) is a Sino-Korean term meaning "supreme ultimate", although it can also be translated as "great polarity / duality". [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The term and its overall concept is derived from the Chinese Taiji , popularised in the west as the Yin and Yang .
The Standard Chinese pronunciation of both romanizations of the character "Dao" is the same; that is, /daʊ/, much like the English "dow". One authority calls the pronunciation with a t as in "tie" to be a "mispronunciation" originally caused by the "clumsy Wade-Giles system", which misled most readers.