The Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam: a preliminary study

Abstract

The Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam is an organization that constitutes the current Vietnamese Buddhist Church. This institution, established in South Vietnam in early 1964, has some role in national history and has many unresolved research issues. To contribute to some clarification about this organization, the following article would like to focus on clarifying the historical process that led to the birth and organizational problems of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, and at the same time clarifying the position of this organization for the birth of the Buddhist Church of Vietnam in 1981.