Vietnam: Buddhist nun, Chua Con Son Pagoda, east of Hanoi. Chua Con Son was a temple built to honour the poet-warrior Nguyen Trai (1380-1442), chief adviser and amanuensis to Le Loi, the general who expelled the Ming Chinese from Vietnam in 1427 and, in 1428, assumed the throne as Emperor Le Thai To.

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