tailieunhanh - About the mother goddess worshipping and her temple

In Vietnamese belief, rice field, land, and water belong to Yin. Agricultural Spirit always creates enriched life for farmer, thus people had imaged a Land Spirit. This spirit always is female - an original Mother Goddess. In this legend of Đông Cuông Mother Goddess, Âu Cơ Mother Goddess, Man Nương is an original Mother Goddess. When Buddhism developed in our country, Tứ Pháp (Cloud Spirit, Rainy Spirit, Thunder Spirit, Lightning Spirit) incarnate to Buddha and they had worshiped in Vietnam’s pagoda. | About the Mother Goddess Worshipping. ABOUT THE MOTHER GODDESS WORSHIPPING AND HER TEMPLE TRAN LAM BIEN* 1. About the Mother Goddess Worshiping Before the August Revolution (1945), most of Vietnamese are farmers. So in the past, their thinking is an agricultural type. Like farmers in the world, Vietnamese peasants respect to Yin and Yang world: earth - land, male - female, right - wrong, death livability, dark - light, heat - cold. Two forms connect closely to change and develop. In Vietnamese belief, rice field, land, and water belong to Yin. Agricultural Spirit always creates enriched life for farmer, thus people had imaged a Land Spirit. This spirit always is female - an original Mother Goddess. In this legend of Đông Cuông Mother Goddess, Âu Cơ Mother Goddess, Man Nương is an original Mother Goddess. When Buddhism developed in our country, Tứ Pháp (Cloud Spirit, Rainy Spirit, Thunder Spirit, Lightning Spirit) incarnate to Buddha and they had worshiped in Vietnam’s pagoda. It is symbol of Vietnam’s Buddhist and expressed the aspiration of farmer. And Mother Goddess incarnates in Platform of Shakyamuni Buddha, and appears in female person: bà Chúa Ba (The Third Mother Goddess) in Perfume temple, Quan Âm Thị Kính, Quan Âm Tống Từ. and they have common name: Guanyin. However, there is a space for Mother Goddess worshiping in the pagoda. Mother Goddess temple creates noisily space in pagoda. The structure of Mother Goddess includes: Creative System of Four Realms(1) and Deities(2) include: 1. The First Mother Goddess - The Mother Goddess of Heaven; The Second Mother Goddess - The Mother Goddess of the Mountains and Forests; The Third Mother Goddess - The Mother Goddess of the Water, The Fourth Mother Goddess - The Mother Goddess of Earth. The Mother Goddess of Heaven is a creative source of earth and makes an active rule of earth (cloudy, rainy, thunder, and lightning). The Mother Goddess of the Mountains and Forests creates forest and mountain, a valuable .