Buddhist sangha Danang

Giáo hội Phật giáo Việt Nam,a Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam  established in January 1964 , is one of the Buddhist organizations operating in Vietnam and the Vietnamese community abroad.

The struggle for religious equality in 1963 under the Third Republic in South Vietnam against preferential policies for Catholic government of Ngo Dinh Diem , where Buddhist South Vietnam took to the streets in the Buddhist majority support in Hue , Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City .

 On Wesak  Day 1963 when Buddhists in Hue hanged the Buddhist flag  which was banned,the conflict between the government and the Buddhist associations exploded.

Monks were being persecuted and  Venerable Thich Quang Duc burned himself in Saigon to protest government policies of inequality.
The Ngo Dinh Diem government has lost its credibility and five months after the military coup,President Ngo Dinh Diem was killed.

The only nationwide organization before 1964 is of the Vietnamese Buddhist Association founded in 1951 composed of Mahayana Buddhism throughout South, Central, North, but the administration General Assembly remains weak. Buddhism Theravada is a private organization with the name Theravada Buddhist Church, based in Ky Vien Pagoda, Saigon.

Both of the Buddhist organizations in the South and Central regions of Mahayana Buddhism (Mahayana) and primitive Buddhism (Theravada)  united under a charter into a Catholic church named Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam.

 

 Locations of Buddhist temples in Danang MAP