Tác giả: Lê Mạnh Thát
Tên sách : Trần Nhân Tông A biographical study Tác giả : Lê Mạnh Thát Dịch giả : Đạo Sinh Ngôn ngữ : Anh Số trang : 346 Nhà xuất bản : Tổng Hợp TP. HCM Năm xuất bản : 2006 Phân loại : Sách tiếng Anh-English Mô tả TRẦN NHÂN TÔNG A BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY Lê Mạnh Thát Translated from Vietnamese by Đạo Sinh NHÀ XUẤT BẢN TỔNG HỢP TP. HỒ CHÍ MINH PL.2550 – 2006 Vạn Hạnh Monastery Preface The Emperor Nhân Tông of the Trần dynasty is a national hero who made great contributions to the history of Vietnam in various aspects. It was under his leadership that the Vietnamese people could reach their zenith of the age. Together with most gifted military strategists he was capable of motivating their potential strength for defeating the most ferocious and veteran Mongolian army of the time in such glorious battles as Hàm Tử, Chương Dương, Bạch Đằng, and Tây Kết. The Emperor also succeeded in extending the country’s boundaries, laying a strong foundation for the people’s common cause of ‘marching southward’ – a cause that the Vietnamese will always remember with gratitude. Furthermore, two greatly significant developments occurred in Vietnamese culture during his reign. The first is the usage of the Vietnamese language together with Chinese as the official scripts of the imperial court. In the earlier dynasties the Vietnamese language must have been used to some extent, yet this fact had not been proven by any documentary evidence until his reign of Nhân Tông. It may be said that the formal usage of Vietnamese during his reign resulted in the appearance of a series of literary works composed in Vietnamese such as the Tiều Ân Quốc Ngữ Thi Tập by Chu Văn An; a translation of the Shih Ching by Hồ Quí Ly; poems of Nguyễn Biểu and Trần Trùng Quang, a Buddhist monk of the An Quốc Temple; notably, the Quốc Âm Thi Tập by Nguyễn Trãi; and the earliest Vietnamese translations of Buddhist texts Phật Thuyết Đại Báo Phụ Mẫu Ân Trọng and Phật Thuyết Báo Phụ Mẫu Ân Trọng , which are said to have been
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