Buddhism is the main religion in Vietnam, practiced by three-quarters of the population. Unlike its Southeast Asian neighbors, who are largely Theravada Buddhist, Vietnam embraces Mahayana Buddhism, including both Chan (Zen) and Pure Land traditions....

In 574 a Bhikkhu of south India, returning from China, founded the Ch’an School in North Vietnam. Later Bst. travellers from Ceylon founded the Theravāda, which is the predominant school...

Buddhism in Vietnam is Buddhism that had been localized to Vietnam from India and later replaced with Buddhism from China. Vietnamese Buddhism has many characteristics different from Buddhism practiced in other countries. Buddhism is the most...

HOA HAO BUDDHISM IN THE COURSE OF VIETNAM'S HISTORY. By Nguyen Long Thanh Nam. Hauppauge (New York): Nova Science Publishers, Inc. 2003. xx, 178 pp. (B & W photos.) US$49.00, cloth. ISBN 1-59033-756-5. As the translator, Sergei Blagov, and the scholar of...

By Richard Hughes Seager. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 314 pp. n.p. The third title in the "Columbia Contemporary American Religion" series, Richard Hughes Seager's Buddhism in America, is an eminently readable and accessible survey of Buddhist history, tradition, and organizations...