BAYOU LA BATRE, Alabama — Down a gravel road, on the grounds of a Vietnamese Buddhist temple, the statue of a female figure rises 30 feet tall. Her name is Bodhisattva Quan Am. A bodhisattva is an ...

When King Lac Long Quan (also known as “Dragon Lord of the Seas”–where you at, Daenerys Targaryen?) married a fairy princess named Princess Au Co, she bore him 100 eggs that would hatch into the first ...

A team of 18 academicians from the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (USSH), affiliated to the Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City, undertook a study tour of Mariamman temples ...

The Quan Am statue towers over the Vietnam Buddhist Center in Sugar Land with a sense of peace and tranquility. As one of the tallest statues in America, she looks over a pond and garden with an ...

A bronze statue of Goddess Durga which was illegally trafficked into the US and repatriated to Vietnam will be displayed to the public in the coming time, said a representative from the National ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . The Journal of Southeast Asian Studies is one of the principal outlets for scholarly articles on Southeast Asia (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, ...

When it comes to finding a new shrine, the goddess's wishes are quite clear. That property on Fannin would work; the one near Hong Kong Market, out of the question. Nguyen Tan Bo, who's 72, takes all ...

While Hau Dong is celebrated as a UNESCO-recognized intangible heritage, its commercialization threatens its authenticity. One artisan is determined to stop this trend. The Mother Goddess Worship ...

KONG self-developed “Hero and Goddess” is a strategy RPG mobile game set against a simulated Western mythology based game world. It's game play is based on combining the aspects of questing, romance, ...

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