Trúc Lâm

Trúc Lâm
Emperor Trần Nhân Tông was the founder of the Trúc Lâm Yên Tử school of Thiền Buddhism.
Vietnamese alphabetTrúc Lâm Yên Tử
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Trúc Lâm Zen sect (Chinese: 竹林禪派), also known as Trúc Lâm Yên Tử (Chinese: 竹林安子, "Bamboo Grove of Yên Tử"), is a uniquely Vietnamese Thiền (Zen) Buddhist school founded in 1299 during the Trần dynasty by Emperor Trần Nhân Tông (1258–1308). It marked a synthesis of indigenous Vietnamese, Confucian, Taoist, and Mahayana Buddhist traditions.