Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm
Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm | |
---|---|
Born | 1491 |
Died | 1585 (age 93) |
Other names | Nguyễn Văn Đạt Hanh Phủ (亨甫) Bạch Vân cư sĩ (白雲居士, White Cloud Hermit) Trạng Trình (狀程) |
Occupation(s) | Magistrate, poet, educator |
Known for | Khiem's oracular poetry has been compared to that of Nostradamus. It contains the earliest known use of the word "Vietnam." |
Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm (
Biography
Born on the coast in Cổ Am village (which is now part of
).Khiêm became a person much sought after by many leaders during that time of upheaval, civil war, the Mạc collapse, and the rise of the
Khiêm was also a poet, composing many poems in Chinese and
This is the Vietnamese equivalent of the Nostradamus quatrains. It is suggestive, believed to predict future events, and very mysterious. This poem includes the line, "Vietnam is being created" (Vietnamese: Việt Nam khởi tổ xây nền),[4] an early use of the word Vietnam.
Most cities in Vietnam have named major streets after him.[5]
Modern Cult in the School of Teaching Goodness
The School of Teaching Goodness emerged in the 1990s in the
In 2016, a woman credited with spiritual powers who lived near the shrine claimed to have found Khiêm's coffin buried in her garden. State archeologists took the finding seriously and investigated it. The results were inconclusive, but the fame of the shrine grew as a result of the incident.[7]
References
- ^ Chung Van Hoang, New Religions and State’s Response to Religious Diversification in Contemporary Vietnam: Tensions from the Reinvention of the Sacred, Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2017, 59–85.
- ^ Nghia M. Vo -Saigon: A History 2011 Page 13 "South Vietnam would not have existed had it not been fed by a relentless movement of Vietnamese southwards. ... advice of sage Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm (1491–1585), who told him the future would be better for him in the south: “Hoành Sơn nhất ..."
- ^ Anh Thư Hà, Hò̂ng Đức Trà̂n A brief chronology of Vietnam's history 2000 Page 133 "Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm - The Vietnamese people extol Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm as the Number One Oracle (Prophet) of Vietnam because he made a series of predictions to the benefit of posterity, which were referred to as “Divinations of Trạng (First ..."
- ^ a b Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm, "Sấm Trạng Trình"
- ISBN 0-7946-0070-0.
- ^ Chung Van Hoang, New Religions and State’s Response to Religious Diversification in Contemporary Vietnam: Tensions from the Reinvention of the Sacred, Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2017, 59–85.
- ^ Quỳnh Trang, "Hội khảo cổ nghiên cứu ngôi mộ nghi của Trạng trình Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm", VnEXpress, January 18, 2017.
Sources
- Ta Ngoc Lien Renowned Vietnamese Intellectuals: Nguyen Binh Khiem, The Gioi Publishers, 2004.
- Nguyễn Huyền Anh. Việt Nam Danh Nhân Từ Điển.
- Phạm Thế Ngữ. Việt Nam Văn Học Sử.
- Trần Trọng Kim. Việt Nam Sử Lược.
- Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm, The Bach Vân Am Quôc-Ngu Thi Tâp, Text in Latin script and chữ nôm script, translation in French, Bulletin de la Société des études indochinoises, Saigon, 1974, 312 P.