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	Buddhism in Vietnam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Vietnamese Buddhism is indebted to the former for many favours and an unreserved support and also for two treatises, one on meditation and the other on the Doctrine in general, both of which are of a high religious and literary standard.
		This brief statement on modern Buddhism in Viet-Nam shows the enormous efforts performed by both religious and laities of a country which is practically in war since 1940, to maintain not only their faith but also to develop and give it a vitality conformable to the fundamentals of Buddhism: the Compassion.
		Vietnamese Buddhism continues to hold this supremacy in our own times, not in public life it is true, but in the hearts of a good majority of the people.
	www.phatviet.com /pgvn/Buddhisminvietnam.htm (6802 words)

	Vietnam culture links to food information, ingredients and oriental history from asia
		Vietnamese culture, with the increasingly intensive integration into the world modern civilization and the preservation and enhancement of the national identity, promises to reach a new historical peak.
		The Vietnamese folk beliefs since the ancient time consist of belief in fecundity, worship of nature and worship of man. Human beings need to be reproduced, crops need to be lushly green for the nourishment and development of life, so belief in fecundity came into existence.
		The Vietnamese proclaimed themselves as belonging to the Hong Bang family line and the Tien Rong breed (Hong Bang was the name of a huge species of water-bird, Tien, or Fairy, was deification of an egg-laying species of bird, Rong, or Dragon, was an abstract image of snake and crocodile).
	asiarecipe.com /vieculture.html (5767 words)

	Newsletter - 2/17/04 - Buddhism in Vietnam
		The Vietnamese started to conquer and absorbed the land in the 15th century, and the current shape of the country was finalised in the 18th century.
		In summary, although Buddhism in Vietnam is predominantly of the Mahayana form, the Theravada tradition is well recognised and is experiencing a growing interest especially in the practice of meditation, in Nikaya-Agama literature and in Abhidhamma studies.
		Buddhism's roots are closely related to the Jain and Hindu religions in that its ultimate origin was found in the Rig Veda and Brahman tradition.
	www.urbandharma.org /udnl2/nl021704.html (5844 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Vietnamese Buddhism
		The classical period of Buddhism in South East Asia was from the 11th to the 15th century.
		Buddhism was a way to transcend the limitations of society and the self to a higher level.
		Buddhism began to equate to nationalism, and this notion would be the one that linked communism and religion.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=1551 (1713 words)

	Vietnamese Buddhism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Historically Buddhism in Vietnam is predominantly of the Mahayana form, the Theravada tradition is well recognized and is experiencing a growing interest especially in the practice of meditation since 1920.
		In spite of the beneficial influence of Buddhism, for the needs of a methodical organization and an effective administration of the country, the Ly dynasty had to adopt the Chinese model at all echelons of administration.
		In the 1960s and 1970s, a number of Vietnamese bhikkhus were sent overseas for further training, mostly in Thailand and some in Sri Lanka and India.
	manjushri.acumaestro.com /TEACH/vietnam.html (592 words)

	Buddhism in Vietnam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Buddhism in Vietnam is Buddhism that had been localized to Vietnam from India and later replaced with Buddhism from China.
		Buddhism was imported into Vietnam fairly early, at around the beginning of the Christian Era with the legend of Chử Ðồng Tử studying Buddhism from an Indian monk.
		Zen Buddhism, known as Thiền in Vietnam, is a branch of Buddhism created by the Indian monk Bodhidharma in China at the beginning of the 6th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buddhism_in_Vietnam (618 words)

	Vietnamese Zen - Zen History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Buddhism was transmitted to Vietnam at the end of the second century and in the beginning of the third century by masters Khuong Tang Hoi and Mau Bac.
		Buddhism had been propagated in China for years and the scriptures are uncountable.
		In the future, when our nation is in peace, Buddhism would also be prosperous because of the close relationship between Buddhism and Vietnamese people in their mind from the past to present.
	www.truclamvietzen.net /ZenHistory.htm (2293 words)

	Vietnamese Buddhism
		From that time on, Buddhism was always considered as traditional religion, either when as orthodox or as heterodox one with the special advantage of Vietnamese Buddhism in the relation with Confucianism and Taoism.
		This is the limit that Buddhism had been adjusting continuously in process of expanding and indigenizing in other cultures, especially when applying in various communities and nations in order to fulfill its religious mission in the modern age.
		But, Buddhism is a religion, so we should remind that it would certainly take advantage of modern scientific achievements to protect and improve its traditional theory of humanity towards the trend of a religious system.
	www.crvp.org /seminar/05-seminar/hoang.htm (6518 words)

	Buddhist revelations for the modern world
		Buddhism has its own way of serving society and people and there is, for each one of us, an individual way to self-realization that is not devoid of the great compassionate heart but is in fact totally dependent on it.
		In Buddhism, deeply lies the nucleus of all recent revolutions of modern societies towards greater human outcomes, for individual freedom and humanism.The Buddhist revelation to the modern world involves the rediscovery of a coherent view of life, of a quality of life that prevents the materialistic civilization from ending in disaster.
		Buddhism then is thus not only as a philosophy or a spiritual philosophy religion and movement, is also has a functional relationship and basis in the sciences.
	www.purifymind.com /Revelations.htm (8083 words)

	Zen and Pureland Buddhism
		Buddhism came to Vietnam from India by sea in the first century of the common era, during the time of King Asoka, India's great Buddhist emperor.
		This mixed practice is typical of Vietnamese Buddhism itself where monks of different traditions practice together in the same temples: Theravada, Pure Land and Zen, with a little tantra mixed in for good measure.
		The Vietnamese Pure Land adherents also meditate whenever they have the time to, whereas Jodosinshu says that meditation is a mere psychological trick, where you think you are capable of saving yourself.
	www.urbandharma.org /ibmc/ibmc1/pure.html (1102 words)

	Cultural Diversity: Eating in America, Vietnamese, HYG-5258-95 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Vietnamese are fond of fruits - bananas, mangos, papayas, oranges, coconuts, and pineapple.
		The Vietnamese family structure is paternal spanning three generations and is the chief source of social identity.
		Even though Vietnamese immigrants range from farmers to urban dwellers, their move to the United States is one of enormous cultural change.
	ohioline.osu.edu /hyg-fact/5000/5258.html (948 words)

	Hop Tinh Hop Ly
		Buddhism is one of the greatest philosophies or religions (depending on how it is viewed) in human history.
		Vietnamese Buddhists well understand the self-salvation teaching since they practice self-denial, mediation, doing good work, and so on so forth, to earn their salvation.
		In Buddhism, there is a concept of created things such as the universe and its components including human beings, that are impermanent, ill, unhappy, and so on, that are subject to the cycle of birth and death and rebirth.
	www.hoptinhhoply.org /read.asp?Article_ID=153 (1117 words)

	Religions of Vietnam
		To the Vietnamese, and to hundreds of millions of people in Asia, their religious beliefs are sacred, as sacred to them as our beliefs are to us, and perhaps more a part of their lives than ours are of ours.
		Buddhism is the third of the great religions which have contributed to the molding of Vietnamese culture and character over the centuries.
		Buddhism reached its greatest heights in Vietnam in the second stage which ran roughly from the seventh to the 14th centuries.
	www.history.navy.mil /library/online/religions.htm (10135 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The conference invites discussion on the roles of Vietnamese Buddhism in the present as well as its role in the new era.
		Based on the analysis and assessment of the successes and failures and the Chances and challenges that Vietnamese Buddhism faced today, the conference will propose practical directions for the application of Buddhist teachings into human daily life, secular and spiritual.
		The conference “Buddhism in the New Era: Chances and Challenges” will be held from from Saturday to Sunday, July 15 th and 16 th, 2006 at Vietnamese Buddhist Research Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
	www.lib.washington.edu /southeastasia/vsg/news/Buddhism.html (1050 words)

	VN Embassy : Vietnamese Buddhism Is Thriving, Remarks Top Buddhist Dignitary
		The Vietnamese Buddhist community has expanded by ten times since the establishment of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS), remarked a top VBS dignitary in his article run by the Sai Gon Giai Phong (Liberated Sai Gon) on Nov. 3.
		In the first period from 1930s to 1940s, movements to revive Buddhism prevailed with the founding of many Buddhist organisations such as the Southern Buddhist Studies Association (1931), the Luong Xuyen Buddhist Association and the Central An Nam Buddhist Association (1932), and the Buddhist Union (1933).
		From 1950, Vietnamese Buddhism began to develop along with the struggle against foreign invaders for national liberation.
	www.vietnamembassy-usa.org /news/story.php?d=20051108141504 (536 words)

	Vietnam travel and holidays - Vietnames Buddhism
		In the north, Mahayana Buddhism incorporated a deity and various ‘intermediaries’ known as Bodhisattvas, people who strive to attain perfection during their lifetime.
		The few remaining devotees of Theravada Buddhism are mostly clustered in the K’hmer minority areas of the Mekong Delta.
		The Vietnamese believe that a male Hindu Bodhisattva (usually portrayed as a multi-armed effigy) gave up his chance to reach nirvana in favour of returning to Earth as the female Quan Am, and that the metamorphosis took place in the grotto shrine of the Perfume Pagoda, near Hanoi.
	www.vietnam-holidays.co.uk /aboutvietnam/rbuddhism.htm (682 words)

	Buddhist Studies: Mahayana Buddhism: Vietnam
		This is one of the largest Zen meditation study centres in Vietnam, with equally large numbers of nuns and monks.
		There is also a unique Vietnamese form of Buddhism which evolved in the southern provinces, and is a successful combination of Theravada and Mahayana.
		Vietnamese traditionally visit the temple on the fifteenth day of the Lunar month (Ram), and also in the various festival days of the Mahayana Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.
	www.buddhanet.net /e-learning/buddhistworld/vietnam-txt.htm (631 words)

	Asian-American Buddhism Bibliography
		The Role of the Clergy at the Vietnamese Buddhist Temple in Los Angeles as Culture Brokers in Vietnamese Refugee Resettlement.
		"Vietnamese Buddhism in North America: tradition and Acculturation." In The Faces of Buddhism in America.
		Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism and the Soka Gakkai in America: The Ethos of a New Religious Movement.
	www.pluralism.org /resources/biblio/as-am_buddhism.php (3199 words)

	Department of Asian Pacific Studies, San Diego State University
		Vietnamese colonization of the south, stretching all the way to the Mekong Delta, continued through the eighteenth century.
		Conversion to Buddhism was encouraged by Chinese devotees and bureaucrats alike, as a means of civilizing the "barbarian" population they found themselves confronted with.
		The pacifist philosophy of Buddhism must have seemed especially attractive to the colonizers as a means of squelching the fierce independence of the Vietnamese spirit.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /~aps1/graphics/101_vietbud.htm (3593 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Vietnamese Monk Self-immolation
		Paris, France -- A Vietnamese Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Chan Hy, died on Wednesday 24th December after immolating himself at the Lien Hoa Pagoda in North Carolina (USA) to protest persecution of Buddhists and appeal for religious freedom in Vietnam.
		In addition to Vietnamese Buddhists, that population includes more than a thousand Montagnards, generally Christian refugees from the central Vietnamese highlands.
		The most famous act of self-immolation by a Vietnamese Buddhist was in June 1963, when monk Thich Quang Duc set himself on fire in downtown Saigon in a protest against political persecution by the South Vietnamese government of Ngo Dinh Diem.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=1803 (1309 words)

	VietNamNet - Dau Pagoda - cradle of Vietnamese Buddhism
		VietNamNet - Dau Pagoda - cradle of Vietnamese Buddhism
		Materials and antiques left at the Dau Pagoda, especially a wood block made around 1752 years ago, and research on the history of Vietnamese Buddhism (which appeared in the country around 1,800 years ago), confirm that the Dau Pagoda is the one of the oldest Vietnamese Buddhist pagoadas.
		of lunar April and is one of the largest Buddhism festivals in the northern plains and midlands.
	english.vietnamnet.vn /travel/2006/03/552655 (326 words)

	Godserver Alternative Health and Spiritual Directory: World Religions: Buddhism
		To read Vietnamese documents, you will need to have VPS fonts installed on your system (Click here for further information on VPS fonts).
		Originating as a monastic movement within the dominant Brahman tradition of the day, Buddhism quickly developed in a distinctive direction.
		"Buddhism: A religion of Eastern and Central Asia growing out of the teachings of Gautama Buddha that suffering is inherent in life and that one can be liberated from it by mental and moral self-purification.
	www.godserver.com /buddhism.shtml (997 words)

	BuddhaNets Buddhist Web Links: Mahayana Buddhism.
		Now that Buddhism has come to the West, westerners are faced with the task of creating new and viable Buddhist traditions for the modern world.
		SGI-USA is an American lay organization of practitioners of the Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin, a 13th century Japanese monk who taught that the Lotus Sutra contains the ultimate wisdom and purpose of the Buddha, and that each person can manifest the Buddha inherent in all humankind by chanting the title of the Lotus Sutra, "Nam-myoho-renge-kyo".
		This website (in English and Vietnamese) has articles and information on: Buddhism in Vietnam; The Quynh Lam pagoda; Zen Buddhism and poetry; Prominent Figures of Vietnamese Buddhism; The Buddhist Pantheon in Vietnam; Two Buddhist Literary Tendencies; Notes on Vietnam Pagodas Conversation with Dhyanist Monks and Theravada Buddhism in Vietnam.
	www.buddhanet.net /l_maha.htm (1241 words)

	American Buddhism
		This bibliography is meant to serve as a preliminary guide to the main scholarly accounts on the history, development and state of affairs of Buddhism in the U.S.A. and Canada.
		Buddhism in America: The Official Record of the Landmark Conference on the Future of Buddhist Meditative Practices in the West.
		Buddhism and Ecology: The Interconnection of Dharma and Deeds.
	www.globalbuddhism.org /bib-ambu.htm (3371 words)

	religion: buddhism: lineages: vietnamese
		Website with information, resources, and links related to Vietnamese Buddhism.
		Vietnamese sect of reform Buddhism, founded in 1939 by prophet Prophet Huynh Phu So.
		A Vietnamese Buddhist sect emphasizing lay practice amony peasants, and requiring prayer and twice-daily worship of the Buddha and the cult of ancestors.
	www.spiritandsky.com /religion/buddhism/lineages/vietnamese/index.html (119 words)

	Buddhist terms and concepts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sanskrit (or Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit): primarily Mahāyāna Buddhism
		In Buddhism, the inappropriate belief in atman is the prime consequence of ignorance, the foundation of samsara
		Pure Land Buddhism A large branch of Mahayana, dominantly in East Asia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buddhist_terms_and_concepts (3894 words)

	Buddhism: Vietnamese Zen, Thich Nhat Hanh
		One of two Buddhist centers in Northern California run by nuns (and one of few in the nation), the other being Buddha Gate Monastery in Lafayette, California (Chinese Chan), a suburban retreat center.
		I have to say that this center’s website is a disappointment for anyone not speaking Vietnamese.
		As for the center itself, most everything is in the Vietnamese language with some French and English speakers/translators on the grounds.
	www.lighthousewoods.com /buddhist_vietnamese_zen.html (863 words)

	VietScape : Associations : Religious : Buddhism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		- A large collections of Vietnamese Buddhism literatures and resources.
		One can learn the history and the dharma.
		- Quang Duc homepage is an official Buddhist bilingual website (Vietnamese & English) of Quang Duc Monastery in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
	www.vietmultimedia.com /links/pages/Associations/Religious/Buddhism (334 words)

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