Teaching Goodness The School of Teaching Goodness emerged in the 1990s in the Vĩnh Bảo District, a rural area of the city of Hải Phòng. A local carpenter known simply as "Master Thu" claimed to have been visited at night by the spirit of Khiêm, who ordered him to build a shrine in his honor. Thu owned some land, where he built and inaugurated in 1996 a shrine he called Minh Đường Trung Tân (The School of Teaching Goodness). By 2016, it had attracted more than 10,000 visitors, and Thu had organized around the channeled messages of Khiêm a new religious movement with thousands of followers. In 2016, a woman credited with spiritual powers who lived near the shrine claimed to have found Khiêm's coffin buried in her garden. State archeologists took the finding seriously and investigated it. The results were inconclusive, but the fame of the shrine grew as a result of the incident. References Sources Ta Ngoc Lien Renowned Vietnamese Intellectuals: Nguyen Binh Khiem, The Gioi Publishers, 2004. Nguyễn Huyền Anh. Việt Nam Danh Nhân Từ Điển. Phạm Thế Ngữ. Việt Nam Văn Học Sử. Trần Trọng Kim. Việt Nam Sử Lược. Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm, The Bach Vân Am Quôc-Ngu Thi Tâp, Text in Latin script and chữ nôm script, translation in French, Bulletin de la Société des études indochinoises, Saigon, 1974, 312 P. 1491 births 1585 deaths People from Haiphong Cao Dai saints Vietnamese Confucianists Vietnamese male poets Mạc dynasty Deified Vietnamese people 16th-century Vietnamese poets