Vietnamese Hagiographic Texts About the Conqueror of the Mongols Trần Hưng Đạo
Vietnamese Hagiographic Texts About the Conqueror of the Mongols Trần Hưng Đạo
Гордиенко Е.В.
Abstract
The article is concerned with the Vietnamese hagiographic
texts (thần tích) about the commander Trần Hưng Đạo, one of the key figures in Vietnamese history, the winner in the wars of the era of the Sino-Mongol invasions of the second half of the 13th century. The article analyzes hagiographic texts from the northern Vietnamese province of Hà Nam (translated by me), in many villages of which Trần Hưng Đạo is venerated as a tutelary spirit. By their form and content, the hagiographic texts about Trần Hưng Đạo differ significantly from other medieval Vietnamese documents (literary and historical) telling about him.
Keywords
Vietnam; history of Vietnam; Đại Việt; hagiographies; tutelary deity; folk religion.