Tảo Sách Pagoda - the millennium-old sacred building, which is located at 386 Lạc Long Quân Street, Nhật Tân Precinct, Tây Hồ District, Hà Nội Capital, formally known as Tào Sách (original name) and then Linh Sơn (second name) in Nhật Tân Commune, Thượng communal group, Hoàng Long District, Hà Đông province (olden day), has long been recognized as a historical and cultural relic.

Yên Tử is a well-known fabulous mountain in Việt Nam with much clear brooks, slowly flowing like silk bending immense green forests of ivory bamboo, fir-tree. Gleaming behind these forests are towers with ancient pagodas and temples. This place used to be the capital of Buddhism with a famous Zen monastery founded by King Trần Nhân Tông (1258-1308).

The aim of this page is to present to the world of scholarship a new perspective of Buddhism in Vietnam vis-a-vis existing information, based on writings by Dr. Le Manh That. Dr. Le graduated from Wisconsin at Madison in 1974 with a Ph.D. on the Philosophy of Vasubandhu, but he prefers to write his viewpoints on Vietnamese Buddhism in his native language, Vietnamese.

This work on Vietnamese Buddhism from its beginnings through the 20th century provides much evidence requiring Western Buddhologists to radically revise their heretofore accepted time-table for the arrival and development of Buddhism in Vietnam. It provides previously unknown data, detailed in nomenclature, time, and place, scrupulously gathered from archeological finds and ancient archival records by Vietnamese research-teams. Providing much historical analysis and cultural interpretation along the way, this work carries its project forward through the various royal dynasties and the French colonial period.

The Vietnamese Buddhism is witnessing a myriad of disturbing changes and unexpected altercations that have never been seen before in history. From organizational structure, to sangha’s ritual activities, to death and wedding ceremonies, etc…

Buddhism came to Vietnam in the first century CE [1]. By the end of the second century, Vietnam developed a major Buddhist centre in the region, commonly known as the Luy-Lâu centre, now in the Bắc-Ninh province, north of the present Hanoi city.

Under French rule from 1860 to the beginning of World war II, Catholicism was encouraged in Vietnam, while all Buddhist activities in public were restricted. Constructing new Viharas were not allowed, and the number of monks and nuns were limited. In the 1930s, many Buddhist associations were launched in the Northern, Central, and Southern regions for reform of Buddhism.

The inconvenience of carrying a notebook is offset by the delight ofrealizing, at least to some extent, "why the sea is boiling hot, andwhether pigs have wings." An insight into existence and nonexistence andtheir complementarity, and other similarly deep realizations, can beliberating, and I treat my notebook as simply part of a larger practice.

Since the introduction of Buddhism into Vietnam, Buddhist teachings are not only for monks and nuns, but also for the society as a whole including the majority of men and women of every class of life. Actually, the first Buddhist work still extant in Vietnam

According to various historical materials of Vietnam, the Emperor Nhân Tông is recognized to be the founder of the Trúc Lâm Dhyāna School, which flourished for a long time in the history of Vietnamese Buddhism. In spite of this, it has been generally assumed...