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In 1963, he established his ashram on Phoenix Island in Bến Tre province and founded the Coconut Religion. He was a candidate for the 1971 South Vietnamese presidential election . It is alleged that Nam consumed only coconuts for three years, for that period he also organized mass meditations and praying for the ending of the Vietnam War on a ...
The Coconut Religion was founded in 1963 by Vietnamese mystic and scholar Nguyễn Thành Nam, [1] also known as the Coconut Monk, [2] [3] His Coconutship, [4] Prophet of Concord, [4] and Uncle Hai [4] (1909 – 1990 [5]).
Chữ khoa đẩu is a term claimed by the Vietnamese pseudohistorian Đỗ Văn Xuyền to be an ancient, pre-Sinitic script for the Vietnamese language. Đỗ Văn Xuyền's works supposedly shows the script have been in use during the Hồng Bàng period, and it is believed to have disappeared later during the Chinese domination of Vietnam .
Từ điển bách khoa Việt Nam (lit: Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Vietnam) is a state-sponsored Vietnamese-language encyclopedia that was first published in 1995. It has four volumes consisting of 40,000 entries, the final of which was published in 2005. [1] The encyclopedia was republished in 2011.
Caramelized pork and eggs or thịt kho tàu is a Vietnamese dish that consists of small pieces of marinated pork and boiled eggs braised in coconut juice. [1] Along with being a familiar part of an everyday meal in Vietnam, thịt kho tàu also holds significance as one of the traditional dishes during Tết (Vietnamese New Year).
' lumpy skin cake ') [a] [1] is a Vietnamese steamed layer cake, mostly popular in South Vietnam, made from tapioca starch, rice flour, [2] mashed mung beans, taro, or durian, coconut milk and/or water, and sugar. It is sweet and gelatinously soft in texture, with thin (approximately 1 cm) colored layers alternating with layers of mung bean ...
In southern Vietnam, chè are often garnished with coconut creme. Chè may be served either hot or cold, and eaten with a bowl and spoon or drunk in a glass. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] Each variety of chè is designated by a descriptive word or phrase that follows the word chè , such as chè đậu đỏ (literally " red bean chè ").
Vietnamese poetry originated in the form of folk poetry and proverbs. Vietnamese poetic structures include Lục bát, Song thất lục bát, and various styles shared with Classical Chinese poetry forms, such as are found in Tang poetry; examples include verse forms with "seven syllables each line for eight lines," "seven syllables each line for four lines" (a type of quatrain), and "five ...