The Sam Giang is Hoa Hao Buddhism's core teaching text, a body of poems, prophecies and prose sermons composed by Huynh Phu So between 1939 and 1947, running to roughly one hundred fifty thousand words in its complete collected form. Written in accessible Vietnamese verse rather than classical or scholarly language, it teaches personal cultivation, filial piety, gratitude and a simplified Buddhist practice centred on home worship rather than temple ritual, and it carries prophetic material concerning Vietnam's upheaval during his lifetime. It functions for Hoa Hao practitioners as the founder's direct teaching voice, recited and studied in place of the elaborate scriptural corpus of institutional Vietnamese Buddhism.
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Era of CompositionSourced to the subject's own account LanguageSourced to the subject's own account Language DetailSourced to the subject's own accountVernacular Vietnamese verse and prose 1 Attributed Author / CompilerSourced to the subject's own account Structure
StructureSourced to the subject's own accountA collected body of poems, prophecies and prose sermons running to roughly one hundred fifty thousand words, gathered from writings composed between 1939 and 1947 rather than planned as a single continuous work. 1 Status
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Literary FormSourced to the subject's own account Sam Giang (Poems and Prophecies of Huynh Phu So)
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Sam Giang, the collected poems and prophecies naming this text, was authored by Huynh Phu So, the founder of Hoa Hao Buddhism.
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Hoa Hao Buddhism's core teaching text.
Source Hoa Hao Buddhism in the Course of Vietnam's HistoryNguyen Long Thanh Nam (translated by Sergei Blagov)
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1. Hoa Hao Buddhism in the Course of Vietnam's History
Nguyen Long Thanh Nam (translated by Sergei Blagov), Nova Science Publishers, 2003
Hoa Hao (Wikipedia)
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