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Vietnamese folk religion is not an organized religious system, but a set of local worship traditions devoted to the "thần", a term which can be translated as "spirits", "gods" or with the more exhaustive locution "generative powers".
Among the three women was Nhat Chi Mai, known for her active participation in the group "Youth Serving Society" who taught within various orphanages and immolated herself in 1967 for peace. [4] [5] From 1969 to 1972 Chân Không worked with Thích Nhất Hạnh in Paris organizing the Buddhist Peace Delegation which campaigned for peace in Vietnam.
[2] [5] [6] In 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr. nominated him for a Nobel Peace Prize. [ 7 ] [ 2 ] Nhất Hạnh established dozens of monasteries and practice centers [ 2 ] and spent many years living at the Plum Village Monastery , which he founded in 1982 in southwest France near Thénac , [ 8 ] traveling internationally to give retreats and talks.
After many attempts to revive the school, Thích Thanh Từ is the most recent and becoming the most successful monk to restore Trúc Lâm. He built a monastery in Yên Tử Mountain to re-connect the meaning of Trúc Lâm to its origin, and while using this name, is able to strengthen the impact of his movement. [6]