Ngo Thi Nham

Ngo Thi Nham, who lived from 1746 to 1803, was a Vietnamese scholar and official who served the Trinh lords before losing his position after an 1782 coup, then served the Tay Son regime under the Quang Trung Emperor as a writer of court edicts and an emissary to China. After the emperor died in 1792 he turned his attention to Vietnamese Buddhism, becoming renowned for his writings reviving the thirteenth-century Truc Lam Zen sect and seeking to harmonize the Three Teachings of Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism. Following the Tay Son defeat in 1802 he was captured and publicly flogged by a Nguyen official, dying from his injuries shortly after.