Wikipedia's article on Buddhism in Vietnam, community-edited. Reliable for the standard, well documented account of the Indian monks Mahajivaka and Kalacarya arriving at Luy Lau near the end of Han emperor Lingdi's reign; not the right source for the earlier, genuinely disputed theory of direct Indian contact as early as the third century BCE, which the article itself names as a live disagreement rather than a settled fact.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_Vietnam
Source Typereference
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Reliability Tier3
Community-edited reference page, tier 3. Used for the documented 168 to 189 CE arrival of Mahajivaka and Kalacarya at Luy Lau; the earlier third-to-second century BCE direct-India theory is named in the description as disputed rather than adopted. NotesUsed for Buddhism's documented early arrival in Vietnam via the Indian monks at Luy Lau.
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