I'm looking for info on Chun-generation names, if someone has a list of them. I'm looking for the chinese buddhist name of my shifu's master. I'm currently only knowledgeable of his vietnamese monk name, which was Hue Tam. Tam meaning the same as Chun in chinese and Hue meaning "flower". So his name could be Shi Chun Hua, but I'm not sure.
I'm not sure if he took a new name for himself after founding a temple in Vietnam, but it baffles me because his name is always written with the flower in front of the Tam. I'm also unsure of whether it's even possible for a buddhist monk to abandon the name given to him and take a new one.
I looked at the list of the south court names provided in here, but it atleast didn't show a name that would be matching.
Some background info: To my knowledge he was born in the province of Henan. He entered the temple at the age of 6 in 1908. He left Shaolin a few years after the burning of '28 (around 30/31) and went to Hong Kong. He had to flee from Hong Kong and he later arrived to Vietnam via Singapore. He lived in Vietnam for a while as a layman but got bored with it and set up a monastery, Hai Duong Thieu Lam Tu in southern Vietnam, near the border of Cambodia and the city of Chau Doc. His vietnamese name was Trieu Truc Khai. That I believe is a "vietnamisized" version of his chinese name. If that be the case, his familyname (in mandarin) would most probably be Zhao.
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A small edit here:
I just read from the thread Da Mo Yuan and it offered me greater insight on the matter of Shaolin families. With the site offering the whole Cao Dong lineage (or so I presumed), it's quite safe to assume that he didn't belong to that family. This on the other hand makes my whole post quite obsolete.
If someone has names of monks from that era, it would be still a nice thing to look at them.
I'm not sure if he took a new name for himself after founding a temple in Vietnam, but it baffles me because his name is always written with the flower in front of the Tam. I'm also unsure of whether it's even possible for a buddhist monk to abandon the name given to him and take a new one.
I looked at the list of the south court names provided in here, but it atleast didn't show a name that would be matching.
Some background info: To my knowledge he was born in the province of Henan. He entered the temple at the age of 6 in 1908. He left Shaolin a few years after the burning of '28 (around 30/31) and went to Hong Kong. He had to flee from Hong Kong and he later arrived to Vietnam via Singapore. He lived in Vietnam for a while as a layman but got bored with it and set up a monastery, Hai Duong Thieu Lam Tu in southern Vietnam, near the border of Cambodia and the city of Chau Doc. His vietnamese name was Trieu Truc Khai. That I believe is a "vietnamisized" version of his chinese name. If that be the case, his familyname (in mandarin) would most probably be Zhao.
Groat
A small edit here:
I just read from the thread Da Mo Yuan and it offered me greater insight on the matter of Shaolin families. With the site offering the whole Cao Dong lineage (or so I presumed), it's quite safe to assume that he didn't belong to that family. This on the other hand makes my whole post quite obsolete.
If someone has names of monks from that era, it would be still a nice thing to look at them.
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