Vietnamese Buddhist Teachers - famous in history; status; qualifications and training; recent conditions

Vietnamese Buddhist Teachers

Introduction

Vietnam has been dubbed as the next tiger to wake up in terms of economics . For , Vietnam has moved from its pure communist ideology to a socialist based market economy . This is the economy that has catapulted Communist Mainland China to its present high pedestal in terms of economic growth and improvement of the living conditions of its residents . Vietnam has set into place a series of continuing economic reforms resulting to its steady climb to towards a reaching goal of economic sustainability . It has been accepted

as a new member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations or ASEAN

It has garnered an eight percent economic growth since 1992 . In fact , the ratio of poor to the rich has decreased from its former estimated sixty percent to it a lower thirty seven percent . Poverty still pervades in the country sides of Vietnam . But , life is improving The following paragraphs explains that one of the many reasons for the economic miracle slowly taking place in Vietnam is because Vietnamese religious leaders like Most Venerable Huyen Quang and Most Venerable Quang Do have been instrumental in forcing government to change their stand in terms of improving the living conditions of the people (Dinh 2000 , 360

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Most Ven . Huyen Quang Reference : HYPERLINK "http /www .fva .org /bios /thquang .htm http /www .fva .org /bios /thquang .htm

Achievements

Thich Huyen Quang is Vietnam 's most respected Buddhist leader . He is the highest ranking leader of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam One of his best achievements is his fearlessness . He did not fear the government 's retaliatory action when he personally wrote to the Prime Minister of Communist Vietnam Pham Van Dong enumerating more than eighty four occurrences when the his government interfered to the point of gagging his religious sect called Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam or UBCV . Expectedly , the prime minister penalized him for questioning his decisions on curtailment . Most Ven . Thich quyen Quang was immediately arrested and thrown in jail in 1977 . He was arrested together with five other personalities who were vocally opposed to the prime minister 's policies on running the Vietnam government (Abuza 2001 , 192

He and the other leaders were held for opposition government policies . The occasion was specifically dubbed as the Seventh Congress of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam . This was the last meeting that this church organization had . Consequently , the arrest of the church leaders led to massive street protests by church followers and supporters in downtown Ho Chi Minh City . The government leaders felt that their best recourse to quell the growing street rallies was to arrest the leaders and hold them incommunicado from their followers Thus , the government arrested both Thich Huyen Quang and Thich Quang Do on April 7 , 1977 with the charge of distorting government policies . In retaliation , Thich Don Hau resigned from all of his government chores (Friedman 2005 , 30

One of his many achievements is his nomination by two Nobel Laureates for...