This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
Huynh Phu So was abducted by Viet Minh forces in March 1947 and killed that April, at the age of twenty seven, less than eight years after his founding sermon at Hoa Hao village. His death came at the height of his own political as well as religious prominence, cutting short a movement leader whose following was still expanding rapidly across the Mekong Delta at the time.
Hoa Hao Buddhism remembers the event as his disappearance rather than his confirmed death, a distinction the tradition maintains deliberately: his body was never recovered, and its location has never been disclosed by those responsible, so the movement's own language reflects a genuine absence of confirmation rather than euphemism alone dressed up as caution.
That unresolved ending, an abduction with no recovered remains and no disclosed location, has left Huynh Phu So's death without the kind of formal closure a confirmed burial or an official account would provide, a gap in the historical record that mirrors the movement's own chosen language for describing what happened to its twenty seven year old founder.