Vạn Hạnh ( vi-hantu, 禪師萬行, 938–1018) was a Vietnamese

Thiền Thiền Buddhism (, , ) is the name for the Vietnamese school of Zen Buddhism. Thiền is the Sino-Vietnamese pronunciation of the Middle Chinese word 禪 (''chán''), an abbreviation of 禪那 (''chánnà''; thiền na), which is a transliter ...

Buddhist monk. He was well known as the most important

teacher A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching. ''Informally'' the role of teacher may be taken on by anyone (e.g. w ...

, protector, and supporter of Lý Thái Tổ, the first emperor of 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 ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Van, Hanh 938 births 1018 deaths 10th-century Vietnamese people Thiền Buddhist monks People from Bắc Ninh province 10th-century Vietnamese poets Lý dynasty poets Lý dynasty Buddhist monks

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