Knowledge › Vietnam › BuddhismThe five precepts of lay Buddhists: no killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying or intoxicants, as the Pali suttas state them, and practice in Vietnam.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk beliefFolk belief is not science, but that does not make it worthless. The right way to read it is as cultural heritage, a symbolic language of community.
Updated 13 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk beliefTừ Đạo Hạnh, Nguyễn Minh Không and Dương Không Lộ in Lĩnh Nam chích quái are tales of wonder about three monks of the Lý era, told as tales.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › BuddhismImpermanence, suffering and non-self are the three marks of the teaching: body, mind and world all change, are unsatisfactory and have no fixed self.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › BuddhismThe Trúc Lâm Yên Tử school founded by Trần Nhân Tông: its three patriarchs and the idea of cư trần lạc đạo, living in the world yet glad in the Way.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsKathina, the Khmer Theravada robe offering after the three-month rain retreat, runs from the 16th of the ninth lunar month to the full moon of the tenth.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyLearn what relief stars and fate-mitigating stars are in Vietnamese astrology, their origins, and their real limits from Buddhist and cultural perspectives.
Updated 1 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › BuddhismCư trần lạc đạo phú by Trần Nhân Tông: ten sections in Nôm and a closing verse in Hán, on living in the world while delighting in the Way.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsVesak marks the birth of Shakyamuni Buddha, and its date differs between Theravada and Mahayana traditions. The bathing ritual symbolizes inner purification.
Updated 4 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyA Buddhist and psychological analysis of bad luck in Vietnamese astrology, helping you understand without fear and take proactive control of your life.
Updated 21 Jul 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › BuddhismXinxin Ming and Zhengdao Ge are both foundational Chan verses, but they differ in author, date, wording and how they present the path.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › BuddhismSun Moon Lamp Light Buddha is the last of twenty thousand Buddhas sharing one title in the Lotus Sutra's opening chapter.
Updated 16 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › BuddhismLuy Lâu is seen as one of the earliest places Buddhism reached Giao Châu, linked with chùa Dâu, the Tứ Pháp cult and Mâu Tử's Lý hoặc luận.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › BuddhismThe twelve links of dependent origination run from ignorance to ageing and death. What each link means in the Pali suttas and how the chain ends.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › BuddhismThe three Chan lineages of the Lý era: Tì Ni Đa Lưu Chi, Vô Ngôn Thông and Thảo Đường. Their origins, transmission and how scholars read them.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief