Lý Thị Ngọc Kiều ( vi-hantu, 李氏玉嬌, 1041 – 1113),

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Diệu Nhân (妙因), was a princess during the

Lý dynasty The Lý dynasty (, , chữ Nôm: 茹李, chữ Hán: 朝李, Vietnamese language, Vietnamese: ''triều Lý''), officially Đại Cồ Việt (chữ Hán: 大瞿越) from 1009 to 1054 and Đại Việt (chữ Hán: 大越) from 1054 to 1225, was ...

in Vietnamese history. She was the 17th leader of the Vietnamese

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school of

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Biography

Diệu Nhân was born the eldest daughter of Lý Nhật Trung, a son of Emperor

Lý Thái Tông Lý Thái Tông (chữ Hán: 李太宗; 29 July 1000 – 3 November 1054), personal name Lý Phật Mã, posthumously temple name Thái Tông, was the second emperor of the Lý dynasty, ruled Đại Việt from 1028 to 1054. He was considere ...

, in 1041.Contradictory entries in the

Complete Annals of Đại Việt Complete may refer to: Logic * Completeness (logic) * Completeness of a theory, the property of a theory that every formula in the theory's language or its negation is provable Mathematics * The completeness of the real numbers, which implies t ...

place her birth in either 1041 or 1042. She was raised in the royal court of Emperor

Lý Thánh Tông Lý Thánh Tông (19th March 1023 - 1st February 1072), personal name Lý Nhật Tôn , temple name Thánh Tông, was the third emperor of the Lý dynasty and the 8th ruler of the Vietnamese dynasty Đại Việt. In his reign, Lý Thánh Tô ...

, then married to a highland chief in Chau Dang (modern Hưng Hóa region). She became a Buddhist monk after the death of her husband.

Books

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Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư The ''Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư'' ( vi-hantu, 大越史記全書; ; ''Complete Annals of Đại Việt'') is the official national chronicle of the Đại Việt, that was originally compiled by the royal historian Ngô Sĩ Liên under ...

'' (Tập I, bản dịch). Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội,

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, 1983. * Noname, '' Thiền uyển tập anh ngữ lục'' (bản dịch của Ngô Đức Thọ và Nguyễn Thúy Nga). Nhà xuất bản Văn học, Hà Nội, 1990. * Monk

Thích Thanh Từ Thích Thanh Từ (right) with Pratibha Patil. Thích Thanh Từ (born 24 July 1924) is a Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk. He has been influential with increasing traditional Vietnamese Buddhism practices within the country. Biography Thích ...

, ''Thiền sư Việt Nam''. Thành hội Phật giáo

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, 1992. * Scholar Nguyễn Đăng Na, ''Văn học thế kỷ X-XIV''. Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội,

, 2004. * Scholar Trần Thị Băng Thanh, ''Lý Ngọc Kiều - From a princess to monk Diệu Nhân'', ''Faces in Thăng Long''. Nhà xuất bản

, 2010. * Scholar Đoàn Thị Thu Vân, ''Poems of Lý Trần Period''. Hội nghiên cứu giảng dạy văn học Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh cùng nhà xuất bản Văn Nghệ Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh hợp tác ấn hành năm 1998.

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About monk Lý Thị Diễm

Ni sư Diệu Nhân

Phan Hữu Nghệ, "Một cách hiểu bài thơ Sinh Lão Bệnh Tử của Ni sư Diệu Nhân" đăng trong ''Tạp chí Hán Nôm'', số 1 (10), 1991
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dieu Nhan 1041 births 1113 deaths Lý dynasty princesses Vietnamese Zen Buddhists 11th-century Vietnamese women 11th-century Vietnamese people 12th-century Vietnamese women 12th-century Vietnamese people Vietnamese Buddhist nuns