Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam
Giáo Hội Phật Giáo Việt Nam Thống Nhất | |
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| Formation | January 4, 1964 |
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| Founded at | Huế, Vietnam |
| Purpose | Buddhist sangha |
| Headquarters | Phật Ân Temple, Long Thành District, Đồng Nai Từ Hiếu Temple, Sài Gòn North America: Phật Đà Temple, San Diego, California Liên Hoa Temple, Houston, Texas Quang Thiện Temple, Ontario, Canada Europe: Viên Giác Temple, Hannover, Germany Khánh Anh Temple, Évry-Courcouronnes, France Australia and New Zealand: Quảng Đức Monastery, Fawkner, Australia |
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| Subsidiaries | Vietnamese Buddhist Youth Association Vietnamese American Unified Buddhist Congregation Vietnamese Australian and New Zealander Unified Buddhist Congregation United Vietnamese Buddhist Congregation in Europe |
| Remarks | Slogan: Phụng sự chúng sanh tức cúng dường chư Phật (Serving all sentient beings is offering to the Buddhas) Anthem: Phật Giáo Việt Nam (Buddhism in Vietnam) |
The Unified Buddhist Sangha of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Giáo hội Phật giáo Việt Nam Thống nhất) was founded in 1964 as a nationwide Buddhist organization in South Vietnam. It was banned by the communist Vietnamese government in 1981, which favored the state-sponsored Buddhist Sangha of Vietnam. The Unified Buddhist Sangha continues to operate in exile outside Vietnam.[1]
History
Before the 1954 partition of Vietnam, the first national Buddhist organization was the General Buddhist Association of Vietnam, established in 1951. The Unified Buddhist Sangha of Vietnam was founded in 1964 to unify 11 of the 14 different sects of Vietnamese Buddhism which were present in South Vietnam at the time. The unification also came in response to the Diệm government's mishandling of the Buddhist crisis in 1963.[2] During the Second Republic, the Sangha was divided into two factions: the moderate, Northern-dominated Quốc Tự, led by Thích Tâm Châu, and the larger, Central-dominated Ấn Quang, led by Thích Trí Quang and notably more hostile to the government.[3]: 7
The UBSV's patriarchs Thích Huyền Quang, and Thích Quảng Độ were under house arrest due to their opposition to strict government control of religion, which was established after the communists won the war in 1975.[4]
In 1981, six years after the communist victory, the new government consolidated all Buddhist organizations under the umbrella group Buddhist Sangha of Vietnam and placed it under government control. The Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam and all other non-sanctioned organizations were banned within Vietnam. The UBSV continues to operate in exile outside Vietnam.[5]
See also
Notes
References
- ^ "Vietnam officials monitor funeral for head of banned Buddhist church". Radio Free Asia. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
- ^ Abuza, Zachary (2001). Renovating Politics in Contemporary Vietnam. Lynne Rienner Publishers. pp. 191–. ISBN 978-1-55587-961-7.
- ^ Fear, Sean (2016). "The Ambiguous Legacy of Ngô Đình Diệm in South Vietnam's Second Republic (1967–1975)". Journal of Vietnamese Studies. 11 (1): 1–75. doi:10.1525/jvs.2016.11.1.1.
- ^ Johnson, Kay (March 2, 2007 ). The Fighting Monks of Vietnam Archived 2013-10-22 at the Wayback Machine, Time Magazine
- ^ "Vietnam officials monitor funeral for head of banned Buddhist church". Radio Free Asia. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
Bibliography
- Queen, Christopher S.; King, Sallie B. (1996). Thich Nhat Hanh and the Unified Church of Vietnam. In: Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia. SUNY Press. pp. 321–. ISBN 978-0-7914-2844-3.
External links
- The Suppression of the Unified Buddhist Church, Human Rights Watch 1995
- Phật Tử Việt Nam