Chapter 3: Science And Social Work

◎ Nguyen Kha 阮柯 (pharmacist) ??

◎ The University of Saigon 西貢大學 (today's name: Ho Chi Minh City Medicine and Pharmacy University)

http://www.yds.edu.vn/


◎Professor Pham Hoang Ho 范宏護教授
??

◎Quoc Thanh Theater 國清戲院
?? no informatoin

◎ Van Hanh Buddhist University佛教萬行大學

in a friend's blog, " it was a dusty and rather ramshackle place. Originally established by Thich Nhat Hanh in the 60s, it hadn't been renovated much since then, and was a tacky collection of wooden buildings....In recent years a Taiwanese Buddhist group has pumped a lot of money into Van Hanh, and it is filled with big, beautiful new buildings and classrooms....There is still a resident monastic community, but the nun's hermitage was demolished after Su Ba Tri Hai's death..."  (See the coming Chapter 5 to know more Thich Nu Tri Hai 釋女智海) 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Hanh_Zen_Temple

(Information about University 中文資料)

◎ Nguyễn Ngọc Loan 阮玉鑾(1930-1998) Chief of National Police 全國警察總長

Nguyễn Ngọc Loan killed a man on the street

Those were the days in Vietnam. 




May you be well. To be continued, ...

Chapter 2: Communism And Buddhism

※Hồ Chí Minh 胡志明

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7kLQy_Zzb8

※ 國民派

※ Hung 興 (Sr CK’s brother)

※Viet Minh越盟軍(共軍)

※General Douglas Gracey

※Leclerc (French general in WWII)

※Nghiep 業 (Sr CK’s 2^nd elder brother) a singer

※Marie Curie School (trường THPT Marie Curie) (where Sister CK studied)

Teachers
Now

Marie Curie School

※ Madame Simon (philosopher)

※An Quang Pagoda 印光寺 (in Saigon)


It has been at the focus of development of modern Vietnamese Buddhism as the seat of the School of Buddhist Studies and the headquarters of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam.

1968

                       Thay Nhat Hanh visited An Quang Pagoda in 2008

※Thay Thanh Tu 清慈法師 (from An Quang Pagoda)

Thay Thanh Tu (right)

http://www.thuong-chieu.org/uni/HanhTrang/TieuSu.htm

Thay Thanh Tu gave Dharma Talk:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-880797742078330797# 

To be continued, thank you...

Chapter 1: The Grass come back to life

◆Learning True Love 真愛的功課 by Sister Chan Khong 真空法師(Cao Ngoc Phuong高玉鳳) (1938-)
Her ordination name means 'true emptiness', but Sister Chan Khong, a close aide to Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, has had a very rich, fulfilling life...

◆Tet 新年 (Vietnam’s new year, usually in Febrary)

Tet (New Year)

  Vietnam (cited from BBC):

• Full name: Socialist Republic of Vietnam
• Population: 89 million (UN, 2010)
• Capital: Hanoi
• Largest city: Ho Chi Minh City
• Area: 329,247 sq km (127,123 sq miles)
• Major language: Vietnamese
• Major religion: Buddhism

◆An Dinh (An Định)安定 (South Vietnam 南越) (where Sister CK was born in Vietnam)

◆Ben Tre檳椥市(where Sister's mother lived) (South Vietnam南越)

◆Saigon西貢(= Ho Chi Minh City胡志明市)(at South Vietnam南越)
   (Streets of Ho Chi Minh City, after 2006)
It is the largest city in Vietnam today.
Under the name Saigon, it was the capital of the French colony of Cochin-china and later of the independent state of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1975. 

47 people were killed at Saigon, in 1962

1965 bomb explosion

Saigon  in recent year

◆ Mekong River楣公河
   It runs through south China, Burma, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam.

◆Hue順化 (Mid-Vietnam 中越, ~1000km north from Ho Chi Minh City)
  The old imperial capital of the Nguyễn Dynasty. Population is about 340,000 people.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huế 

Hue

◆Phuong 鳳 (Sr CK herself)
◆Suong 霜(Sr CK’s big sister) ( - 1948)
◆Yen 燕 (Sr CK’s 2nd elder sister)
◆Thanh 清 (Sr CK’s youngest sister)
◆Tam 心 (Sr CK’s sister)


◆Confucianism儒家思想

◆Vietnam's traditional clothes

◆Bánh ích粽子(cone-shaped sweet cake)

◆Banh chung地糕(cakes symbolizing the Earth)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bánh_chưng

◆Banh tet年糕(New Year’s cake)

◆Bamboo with a banner of yellow cloth (now, the cloth becomes colorful.)

◆P.S Plum Village Tet 2010, for your reference



To be continued, thank you...