The Hai Bà Trưng Temple is a place of worship in

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near Hoàn Kiếm Lake. It is one of several temples to the two

Trưng Sisters The Trưng sisters ( (), 𠄩婆徵, literally "Two Ladies

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Trưng", 14 – c. 43) were Luoyue military leaders who ruled for three years after Trung sisters' rebellion, commanding a rebellion of Luoyue tribes and other tribes in ...

in Vietnam. According to tradition it was founded by

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around 1160 after he visited a shrine to the Trưng Sisters, who then appeared to him as rain spirits. Culturally, the development of the cult of the sisters at that time is in the context of assertion of independence after the end of the

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- nearly 1000 years after the Qin conquest of

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. The altar display at the Trưng Sisters temple shows their violent death rather than suicide.Philip Taylor ''Modernity and Re-Enchantment: Religion in Post-Revolutionary Vietnam'' Page 163 2007 -"Stories associating violent death with powerful female deities such as the Trưng sisters and Lady

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are also known ... A description of the altar display at the Two Trưng Sisters' northern temple prompted Tạ Chí Đại Trường to suggest...

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