Ông Đạo Dừa, the coconut monk, real name Nguyễn Thành Nam (Phước Thịnh, 1909–90) founded the Đạo Dừa sect of religion in Vietnam. He studied in Rouen, France from 1928, and began to gather a following in Mỹ Tho and Bến Tre during the late 1950s.