Ngô Chân Lưu ( vi-hantu, 吳真流, 933–1011), title Khuông Việt (), was a Vietnamese

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and poet. He wrote some of the earliest works by any

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writer, but wrote in Chinese, the language of the Vietnamese literati and

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scholars. His ''Ngọc Lang Quy'' (), a farewell to Lý Giác, is one of the first works of Chữ Nho tradition of Vietnamese literature.Keith Weller Taylor ''The Birth of Vietnam 1991-'' Page 282 "Ngô Chân Lưu, a Buddhist priest holding the title "Buddhist Unifier" (Tăng thống), was named "Great Teacher for Correcting and Sustaining Viet" (Khuông Việt Đại sư). The title "Buddhist Unifier" dates from the Northern (Later) Wei dynasty in ..."

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