Talk:Buddhism in Vietnam

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Thought I'd get a discussion page going since I added some potential categories to the page. While I'm not Vietnamese myself, I do attend a Pure Land pagoda and have followed the news about religious freedom in Vietnam. It seems to me that the pagoda is an important way that the Vietnamese culture is preserved for expatriates, and info about that might be a good thing to add here. Nightngle 13:42, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] religion statistics

please see the discussion on religion i just added to (the top of the page) on the talk: vietnam page at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Vietnam

when i stumbled onto this page and saw what someone wrote in the top it confirmed what i thought: that the figures for buddhist followers were so low simply because the government might only consider buddhists to be the relatively small number of "practicing buddhists", disregarding the huge numbers who don't strictly follow all rites but are influenced by buddhism or visit temples.

then again i could be wrong..

does anyone have any good sources? please contribute to the discussion, this is something im very confused on.Justakemeout 18:48, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

You're right, according to official censuses, a huge majority of Vietnamese are atheists (about 88%). However, that number is likely an underestimate since most people in Vietnam are Confucian and Buddhist even if they don't follow all the rites. DHN 19:19, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Theravada Buddhism

This article ignores the Theravada Buddhism still practiced till todate by the Khmer Krom minority in southern Viertnam. Historically at some point they were the majority in South Vietnam, hence Theravada Buddism was a dominant religion in Southern Vietnam from a historical point of view too. Taprobanus 19:35, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for this observation, because no one "owns" this article, if you are knowledgeable about this topic, please add the appropriate section and any information or sources you have about it. Nightngle 13:44, 4 July 2007 (UTC)