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At the end of Vietnam War, Vietnam was unified into a socialist state. At first the Government of Vietnam promoted atheism and did not establish any Buddhist organizations. On November 7, 1981 a new official national organization was formed in Hanoi, called Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (Giáo hội Phật giáo Việt Nam). [6]
Vietnamese uses 22 letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet.The 4 remaining letters aren't considered part of the Vietnamese alphabet although they are used to write loanwords, languages of other ethnic groups in the country based on Vietnamese phonetics to differentiate the meanings or even Vietnamese dialects, for example: dz or z for southerner pronunciation of v in standard Vietnamese.
Buddhism in Vietnam (Vietnamese: Đạo Phật, 道佛 or Phật Giáo, 佛教), as practiced by the Vietnamese people, is a form of East Asian Mahayana Buddhism. It is the main religion in Vietnam .
The publishing house was established in 1957 "to introduce readers around the world to Vietnam" through publications in English, French and other foreign languages. [1] From 1957 to 1992 it was known as the Foreign Languages Publishing House and also as the Editions en Langues Etrangères ( Nhà xuất bản ngoại văn ).
Alpha Books, a member of Penguin Random House, is an American publisher best known for its Complete Idiot's Guides series. It began as a division of Macmillan. Pearson Education acquired Macmillan General Reference (MGR) from Simon & Schuster in 1998 and retained Complete Idiot's Guides while the rest of MGR was sold to IDG Books. [1]
Kim Đồng Publishing House (Vietnamese: Nhà xuất bản Kim Đồng) is the largest printing and publishing company in Vietnam mainly focused on education and comic-related books and magazines for children, teenager boys and adolescent girls. With more than a thousand titles of books published yearly, its books are offered to children of ...
Notre Dame Cathedral in Ho Chi Minh City is considered to be one of the main city attractions and one of the most beautiful buildings in all Vietnam. It was built from 1877 to 1880 by the French architect J. Bourad, has a Neo-Romanesque façade with twin towers and a statue of the Virgin Mary in the center front.
The Lê dynasty, also known in historiography as the Later Lê dynasty (Vietnamese: "Nhà Hậu Lê" or "Triều Hậu Lê", chữ Hán: 朝後黎, chữ Nôm: 茹後黎 [b]), officially Đại Việt (Vietnamese: Đại Việt; Chữ Hán: 大越), was the longest-ruling Vietnamese dynasty, having ruled from 1428 to 1789, with an interregnum between 1527 and 1533.