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Buddhism in Vietnam. Statue of Amitābha Buddha (A Di Đà Phật) on Fansipan (Phan Xi Păng) Mountain, Lào Cai Province. Buddhism in Vietnam (Vietnamese: Đạo Phật, 道佛 or Phật Giáo, 佛教), as practiced by the Vietnamese people, is a form of East Asian Mahayana Buddhism. It is the main religion in Vietnam.
According to estimates by the Pew Research Center in 2010, most of the Vietnamese people practiced (exclusively) folk religions (45.3%). A total of 16.4% of the population were Buddhists (Mahayana), 8.2% were Christian, and about 30% were unaffiliated to any religion. [4] Officially, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is an atheist state, as ...
t. e. Vietnamese folk religion (Vietnamese: tín ngưỡng dân gian Việt Nam) or Đạo Lương (道良) is a group of spiritual beliefs and practices adhered by the Vietnamese people. About 86% of the population in Vietnam are reported irreligious, [1] but are associated with this tradition. Vietnamese folk religion is not an organized ...
Symbol of Hòa Hảo Buddhism. Hòa Hảo is a Vietnamese new religious movement. [1] It is described either as a syncretistic folk religion or as a sect of Buddhism. It was founded in 1939 by Huỳnh Phú Sổ (1920–1947), who is regarded as a saint by its devotees. [2] It is one of the major religions of Vietnam with between one million and ...
Caodaism. Cao Đài's left eye, similar to the Eye of Providence. Caodaism Holy See in Tây Ninh is the main religious building in Caodaism's Holy Land, outside of which buildings with the same functions are called Caodaist temples. Caodaism (/ ˌkaʊˈdaɪzm /, Vietnamese: Đạo Cao Đài, Chữ Hán: 道高臺, IPA: [ʔɗaːw˧˨ʔ kaːw ...
During the Vietnam War, the US backed a Catholic named Ngô Đình Diệm for his leadership of South Vietnam. The US assumed that Diem would protect freedom of religion in South Vietnam, due to his deep faith, but instead he used his power to suppress Buddhism (which was the majority religion of South Vietnam) and promote Catholicism. [8]
East Asian Buddhism or East Asian Mahayana is a collective term for the schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism that developed across East Asia which follow the Chinese Buddhist canon. These include the various forms of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese Buddhism in East Asia. [1][2][3][4] East Asian Buddhists constitute the numerically largest ...
Thiền Buddhism (Vietnamese: Thiền tông, 禪宗, IPA: [tʰîən təwŋm]) is the name for the Vietnamese school of Zen Buddhism. Thiền is the Sino-Vietnamese pronunciation of the Middle Chinese word 禪 ( chán ), an abbreviation of 禪那 ( chánnà ; thiền na), which is a transliteration of the Sanskrit word dhyāna (" meditation ").