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Buddhism in Vietnam
Buddhism in Vietnam
as practiced by the
ethnic Vietnamese
is mainly of the
Mahayana
tradition.
Buddhism
may have first come to
Vietnam
as early as the 3rd or 2nd century BC from
South Asia
or from
China
in the 1st or 2nd century AD. Vietnamese Buddhism has had a symbiotic relationship with certain elements of
Taoism
,
Chinese spirituality
, and the
Vietnamese folk religion
.
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