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  2. Đạo Mẫu - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Lê dynasty - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Đại Việt - Wikipedia

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    This stable division would last until 1771, when three Tây Sơn brothers—Nguyễn Nhạc, Nguyễn Huệ, and Nguyễn Lữ—led a peasant revolution that would overrun and topple the Nguyễn, the Trịnh lords, and the Le dynasty. In 1789, the Tây Sơn defeated a Qing intervention that sought to restore the Lê dynasty.

  5. Early Lê dynasty - Wikipedia

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    The Early Lê dynasty, alternatively known as the Former Lê dynasty (Vietnamese: Nhà Tiền Lê; chữ Nôm: 茹 前 黎; pronounced [ɲâː tjə̂n le]) in historiography, officially Đại Cồ Việt (Chữ Hán: 大瞿越), was a dynasty of Vietnam that ruled from 980 to 1009. It followed the Đinh dynasty and was succeeded by the Lý ...

  6. Lý dynasty - Wikipedia

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    The Song dynasty also deployed officers to attend the funeral of a deceased Vietnamese king for the first time during the Lý dynasty. [ 2 ] Tensions between the Lý and Song increased during the reign of Lý Nhân Tông (1072–1128), whose military seized Qinzhou, Lianzhou, and Yongzhou along the Lý-Song border after his attack on Champa. [ 2 ]

  7. Religious symbol - Wikipedia

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    The Symbol of Ìṣẹ̀ṣe - Yorùbá indigenous Religion explained the Philosophical concept of the Four Cardinal Points (Igun Mẹ́rin Ayé) and its cosmological meanings as it was arranged and explained by Ọ̀rúnmìlà Baraà mi Àgbọnnìrègún through IFÁ - the esoteric language of OLÓDÙMARÈ, and which is the Centrality of the ...

  8. Ruyi (scepter) - Wikipedia

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    Qing dynasty wood and jade three-inlay ruyi. Chinese classic texts from the Former Han dynasty (206 BC – 24 AD) contain the earliest usages of the word ruyi.For example, the Shiji history uses it both literally for "as desired" and for the given name of Liu Ruyi (Chinese: 劉如意; pinyin: Liú rúyì) (d. 195 BC), who was the son of Emperor Gaozu of Han and Concubine Qi.

  9. Mantra - Wikipedia

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    A mantra (Pali: mantra) or mantram (Devanagari: मन्त्रम्) [1] is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words (most often in an Indo-Iranian language like Sanskrit or Avestan) believed by practitioners to have religious, magical or spiritual powers.