Ông Đạo Dừa
Ông Đạo Dừa ("The Coconut Monk"), born Nguyễn Thành Nam (December 25 1910 – May 13 1990), was a self-styled Vietnamese mystic and the founder of the Coconut Religion (''Đạo Dừa'') religion in Vietnam, in Vietnam. Family and Early Life Born on 25 December 1910 as Nguyễn Thành Nam, he was born in a village in Châu Thành district, Đồng Tháp province, Truc Giang district, Bến Tre province, Kien Hoa province. He was the son of a rich family, whose father named Nguyễn Thành Trúc was a chief of the region and had a mother named Lê Thị Sen. In 1928, he went to Rouen, France, to study for seven years. When he graduated as a chemical engineer in 1935, he returned back to his hometown. He proceeded to marry a woman named Lộ Thị Nga, and have a daughter named Nguyễn Thị Khiêm, though in his later life would marry eight more wives. When he returned back at his hometown, he faced constant trouble with the local French authorities due to not working ...
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