Editing Ching Hai (section)

{{short description|Vietnamese spiritual teacher}}
{{for|other topics with a similar-sounding name|Qinghai (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox artist
| honorific_prefix =
| name             = Ching Hai
| image            = ChingHai Sydney in 1993.jpg
| image_size       = 175px
| caption          = Ching Hai in [[Sydney, Australia|Sydney]] (1993)
| birth_name       = Hue Dang Trinh
| birth_date       = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1950|05|12}}
| birth_place      = [[Quang Ngai Province]], [[Vietnam]]
| nationality      = [[United Kingdom|British]], <br> formerly [[Vietnamese people|Vietnamese]]
| movement         = Quan Yin Method
| field            = [[Spirituality]], [[mysticism]], [[poetry]], [[entrepreneur]]
| works            = Book ''The Key of Immediate Enlightenment'', [[Supreme Master Television]], [[Loving Hut]]
| memorials        =
| website          = {{URL|godsdirectcontact.org}}
}}
{{Infobox Chinese
| title = Supreme Master Ching Hai
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| collapse = yes
| t = {{linktext|清|海|無|上|師}}<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1021065075 |title=Handbook of East Asian new religious movements |date=2018 |editor=Lukas Pokorny |isbn=978-90-04-36297-0 |publisher=Brill |location=Leiden |oclc=1021065075}}</ref>
| s = {{linktext|清|海|无|上|师}}
| l = Clear Ocean Immeasurable Teacher <ref group="note">* Qīnghǎi wú shàng shī.
* Thanh Hải Vô Thượng Sư.

Literally; "Clear Ocean, Immeasurable Teacher".

{{Cite journal |last=Winter |first=Franz |date=2018 |title=How to Download the Divine |url=https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/index.php/religions/article/download/23847/17589/65523 |journal=Online – Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet |volume=13 |pages=133 |via=Heidelberg University}}
* Both the Chinese and Vietnamese adjectives: "Immeasurable" are derived from the Sanskrit word "Anuttara" See: [[Glossary of Buddhism]]. For the Chinese title Teacher or Master see: [[Shifu]].
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| p = Qīng Hǎi Wú Shàng Shī
| qn = Thanh Hải Vô Thượng Sư<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 2003 |title=Vietnam: Country Report |url=https://www.refworld.org/pdfid/402a3c7c4.pdf |access-date=6 June 2023 |website=Immigration and Nationality Directorate, Home Office, United Kingdom}}</ref>
}}

'''Ching Hai''' (born '''Trịnh Đăng Huệ''';<ref group="note">[[Vietnamese name]] consisting of three parts in the following order: a family name, a middle name and a given name.</ref> 12 May 1950), commonly referred to as ''[[Abbreviation|Suma]]'' or ''[[Satguru|Supreme Master]]'' Ching Hai, is a [[Vietnamese people in the United Kingdom|British citizen]] of [[Vietnamese people|Vietnamese descent]]; a [[Humanitarian aid|humanitarian]], [[Philanthropy|philanthropist]],<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020 |title=Anual report |url=https://www.redcross.org/content/dam/redcross/about-us/publications/2020-publications/fy20-annual-report.pdf |website=American Red Cross |page=26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Archives |first=L. A. Times |date=1999-01-19 |title=CHARITY SCORECARD |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jan-19-cl-64890-story.html |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=President of the Republic of Slovenia > Reception of Supreme Master Ching Hai |url=http://www2.gov.si/up-rs/2002-2007/jd-ang.nsf/PrintWebForm?openform&ParentUnid=E48E71CC8B79253BC12572EC007FA553 |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=www2.gov.si}}</ref> and the [[Guru|spiritual leader]]<ref name=partridge/> of the [[Guanyin Famen]] (Chinese) or Quan Yin method transnational [[Cybersectarianism|cybersect]]. The practice had existed predating the common usage of the internet.<ref name="partridge">[[Christopher Partridge|Partridge, Christopher]] (2004) [https://books.google.com/books?id=bkcUAQAAIAAJ&q=Ching+hai New Religions: A Guide] [[Oxford University Press]], p. 263-264</ref><ref name=thornton08>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.academia.edu/7806399|chapter=Manufacturing Dissent in Transnational China: Boomerang, Backfire or Spectacle?|first=Patricia M.|last=Thornton|editor=Kevin J. O'Brien |title=Popular Protest in China |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2008 |pages=179–204|via=www.academia.edu}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Taipei Review |journal=[[Taiwan Review]] |date=2001 |volume=51 |issue=7–11 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kDRwAAAAMAAJ&q=supreme+master+ching+hai |access-date=31 January 2020 |publisher=Kwang Hwa Publishing Company |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Schumacher |first1=Elizabeth |title=Vegan restaurants run by cult leader who 'speaks to God' {{!}} DW {{!}} 13.08.2018 |url=https://www.dw.com/en/vegan-restaurants-run-by-cult-leader-who-speaks-to-god/a-45061424 |access-date=31 January 2020 |work=[[Deutsche Welle]] |date=13 August 2018 |archive-date=31 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200131032111/https://www.dw.com/en/vegan-restaurants-run-by-cult-leader-who-speaks-to-god/a-45061424 |url-status=live }}</ref> Based out of [[Taiwan]], she is estimated to have 2 million followers worldwide.<ref>{{cite news |title=China : Treatment of Guanyin Famen practitioners (Kuan Yin Famen, Guanyin Method, Quanyin Famen, Way of the Goddess of Mercy, Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association) |url=https://www.refworld.org/docid/563c6b334.html |access-date=31 January 2020 |publisher=[[Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada]] |date=14 August 2015 |archive-date=31 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200131032114/https://www.refworld.org/docid/563c6b334.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Goossaert |first1=Vincent |last2=Palmer |first2=David A. |title=The Religious Question in Modern China |date=2011 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-30416-8 |page=292 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bx83dlLMPdMC&q=ching+hai+2+million+followers&pg=PA292 |access-date=31 January 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
Ching Hai founded the [[Loving Hut]] [[Veganism|vegan]] restaurant chain and vegan Celestial Shop fashion company under Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association.<ref name="chua">{{cite magazine| last = Chua-Eoan| first = Howard| title = The Buddhist Martha| url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,985800,00.html| magazine = [[Time (magazine)|Time]]| date = 20 January 1997| access-date = 8 March 2010| archive-date = 21 July 2013| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130721062502/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,985800,00.html| url-status = dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last = Maragay | first = Fel V. | title = Master of charity | work = [[Manila Standard Today]] | date = 20 November 2006 | url = http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=felMaragay_nov20_2006 | access-date = 8 March 2007 | archive-date = 3 November 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141103133648/http://manilastandardtoday.com/?page=felMaragay_nov20_2006 | url-status = live }}</ref>