Hoa Hao
(ˌhəʊə ˈhaʊ)
[Name of the village of birth of the founder, in Vietnam.]
A form of nationalistic Buddhism, set up in 1939 in Indo-China by Huynh Phu So. Freq. attrib. Cf. Caodaism.
| 1955 Times 2 May 12/2 The Hoa Hao commander-in-chief. 1969 New Yorker 20 Sept. 110/3 The scattered religious elements in the South—the Buddhists, the Catholics,..The Hoa Hao sect. 1971 I. M. Sacks in R. F. Spencer Relig. & Change in Contemp. Asia 54 The Hoa Hao religion was founded by the so-called ‘mad monk’, Huynh Phu So. The doctrines of Hoa Hao are..to honor one's parents; to love one's country; to respect Buddhism and its teachings; to love one's fellow man. (‘Buddhism’..means..the teachings of Huynh Phu So.) |