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Six minutes is our calculation of 6 hours in ancient times. According to the ancient way of calculating time, midnight starts from the hour of the Rat to the hour of the Pig. Every day and night there are 12 hours according to the 12 branches: Rat, Ox, Dan, Meo, Dragon, Snake, Ngo, Goat, Monkey,...

Also known as: External Senses, Six Thieves Refers to the six sense objects: form, sound, smell, taste, touch, and mental objects. These six sense objects are like dust that obscures true nature. Because they are external objects, they are called external objects. They are like thieves and robbers, stealing all wholesome Dharma, hence they are...

Đất Nam Kỳ vào đầu thời nhà Nguyễn, cho đến trước năm 1841. Nam Kì Lục tỉnh (南圻六省) hay Lục tỉnh (六省), là tên gọi của vùng Nam Bộ vào đầu thời nhà Nguyễn, tức là khoảng thời gian từ 2 năm 1831 và 1832 (cải cách hành chính của Minh Mạng) tới năm 1862...

The Six Provinces of Southern Vietnam (Vietnamese: Nam Kỳ Lục tỉnh, 南圻六省 or just Lục tỉnh, 六省) is a historical name for the region of Southern Vietnam, which is referred to in French as Basse-Cochinchine (Lower Cochinchina, or Hạ Đàng Trong).[1] The region was politically defined and established after the inauguration of the Nguyễn dynasty...

The Master observed that throughout the six southern provinces, there were many people practicing religion improperly, whose greed and ego had not been eliminated, and who only cared about creating deceptive things to exploit the trust of the common people. If one practices the Way in this manner, the more one practices, the deeper one...

The six senses of a person are comparable to the six spies inside a citadel which sneakily opens for six enemy armies to infiltrate. The six robbers or thieves, that is, the six senses: eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind. They are called Robbers because they often incite people to become engrossed in beauty,...

The six senses of a person are comparable to the six spies inside a citadel which sneakily opens for six enemy armies to infiltrate. The six robbers or thieves, that is, the six senses: eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind. They are called Robbers because they often incite people to become engrossed in beauty,...

The Six Words are written in Chinese or Vietnamese, in fact, equivalent to the six syllables in the Western words, as the Vietnamese and Chinese language have only a monosyllable word. In Vietnamese, the six words are Nam Mô A Di Đà Phật which corresponds to the Chinese phrase 南無啊彌陀佛。 In English, the syllables in...

The Six Words are written in Chinese or Vietnamese, in fact, equivalent to the six syllables in the Western words, as the Vietnamese and Chinese language have only a monosyllable word. In Vietnamese, the six words are Nam Mô A Di Đà Phật which corresponds to the Chinese phrase 南無啊彌陀佛。 In English, the syllables in...

The Four Feminine Virtues are:[6][7][8][9] Feminine Conduct (婦德; Fùdé) Feminine Speech (婦言; Fùyán) Feminine Comportment (婦容; Fùróng) Feminine Works (婦功; Fùgōng) Ban Zhao (49–120 CE), the first known female Chinese historian, elaborated on these in her treatise Lessons for Women (Chinese: 女誡; pinyin: Nǚjiè; Wade–Giles: Nuchieh):[10][11] Speaking about these four, woman's virtue requires neither unparalleled talents nor exceeding brilliance; woman's speech requires neither rhetorical eloquence nor sharp...