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Danny Chan Pak-Keung (Chinese: 陳百強; 7 September 1958 – 25 October 1993) was a Hong Kong singer, songwriter and actor.One of the first Cantopop idols in Hong Kong, he gained fame alongside performers Alan Tam, Anita Mui, and Leslie Cheung, who were collectively known as "Three Kings and a Queen" (三王一后) or "Tam Cheung Mui Chan" (譚張梅陳) in the 1980s. [2]
Non Sông Vang Câu Ca Mừng Khắp đất trời quê ta rộn rã lời ca, Mừng đất nước đổi mới chan hoà. Nhịp nhàng gái trai trẻ già, nắn cung đàn cùng hát lời ca, Mừng đất nước đổi mới chan hoà, Đời vui ấm no muôn nhà, tiếng ca cùng hoà. Khắp đất trời quê ta tiếng ca đậm ...
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.
The Golden Bridge (Vietnamese: Cầu Vàng) is a 150-metre-long (490 ft) pedestrian bridge in the Bà Nà Hills resort, near Da Nang, Vietnam. [1] [2] It is designed to connect the cable car station with the gardens (avoiding a steep incline) [3] and to provide a scenic overlook and tourist attraction. The bridge loops nearly back around to ...
Cao Xueqin was born to a Han Chinese clan [4] that was brought into personal service (as booi aha or bondservants of Cigu Niru) to the Manchu royalty in the late 1610s. [5] His ancestors distinguished themselves through military service in the Plain White Banner of the Eight Banners and subsequently held posts as officials which brought both prestige and wealth.
Chan is the originating tradition of Zen Buddhism (the Japanese pronunciation of the same character, which is the most commonly used English name for the school). Chan Buddhism spread from China south to Vietnam as Thiền and north to Korea as Seon, and, in the 13th century, east to Japan as Japanese Zen.
In 826 Korean Seon Master Doui, a student of Sixth Ancestor of Chan Huineng, brought Chan/Seon (Korean Zen) to Korea and founded the "Nine Mountain Seon Monasteries" which adopted the name Jogye order. In 1227 Dōgen Zenji, a former Tendai student, studied Caodong Buddhism and returned to Japan to establish the Sōtō school. The Caodong school ...
Shō-chan no Bōken cover, 1923. Shō-chan no Bōken (正チャンの冒険, Shō-chan's Adventures) is a Japanese four-panel manga drawn by Katsuichi Kabashima (樺島 勝一, Kabashima Katsuichi, under the pseudonym 東風人, Tōfūjin) and written by Nobutsune Oda (織田 信恒, Oda Nobutsune, as 織田小星, Oda Shosei), serialized in Asahi Graph and Asahi Shimbun from 1923 to 1926 [1 ...