Question

write a short note on huynh phu so

Answer 1

he founder of Hoa Hao was a man called Huynh Phu So.He performed miracles and helped the poor.His criticism against useless expenditure had a wide appeal.He also opposed the sale of child brides, gambling and the use of alcohol and opium.The French tried to suppress this movement and declared him the Mad Bonze,and put him in a mental asylum.Interestingly, the doctor who had to prove him insane became his follower,and finally in 1941,even the French doctors declared that he was sane.The French authorities exiled him to Laos and sent many of his followers to concentration camps.

Answer 2

Huynh Fhu So was a Buddhist religious scholar who was a native of the Mekong river delta.

His role in arousing the anti-imperialist sentiments :

(i) Founder of Hoa Hao Movement: Huynh Phu was the founder of the Hoa Hao Movement which drew on religious ideas popular in the anti-French uprisings of the nineteenth century.

(ii) Social reformer : He was a great social reformer as he opposed the sale of child brides, gambling, and the use of alcohol and opium.

(iii) Struggle against foreign rule: Huynh Phu So faced a great deal of trouble when he began to spread his ideas of religion, because most of his followers were Vietnamese nationalists.

The colonial government declared him mad, called him the Mad Bonze, and put him in a mental asylum. The French authorities exiled him to Laos, and sent many of his followers to concentration camps.