An Quang Pagoda (Vietnamese: Chùa Ấn Quang, meaning: "Light of the (Dharma) Seal"; Hán tự: 印光寺) in Master Van Hanh Street is a meeting place for Vietnamese Buddhist leaders in Ho Chi Minh City and is a site of the Institute for Dharma Propagation. Hán tự ( {{IPA|/han˦˥ tɯ˨/}}; 漢[[wikt 字|字]] meaning " Chinese character " or chữ Nho ( {{IPA|/tɕɯ˧˨˧ ɲɔ/}} Buddhism came to Vietnam in the first century CE By the end of the second century Vietnam developed a major Buddhist centre in the region commonly known as the Luy Lâu It has been at the focus of development of modern Vietnamese Buddhism as the seat of the School of Buddhist Studies and the headquarters of the Unified Buddhist Association of Vietnam. Buddhism came to Vietnam in the first century CE By the end of the second century Vietnam developed a major Buddhist centre in the region commonly known as the Luy Lâu
Since its founding in 1948, its buildings have been expanded in number and size; they now include a library and a publishing house. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A library is a collection of information sources resources and services and the structure in which it is housed it is organized for use and maintained by a public body an institution Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view But the importance of the pagoda lies in the large number of Dharma teachers who started from this place and the thousands of monks and nuns who received their training there. A pagoda is the general term in the English language for a tiered Tower with multiple Eaves common in China, Japan, Korea The Sanskrit term ( Devanāgarī: धर्म Pali transliteration dhamma) is an Indian spiritual and religious
Today the pagoda serves as the headquarters of the Ho Chi Minh City Buddhist Sangha and it may serve as a place of reconciliation between the (underground) Unified Buddhist Church (UBC) and the Communist Party and Government who oppose it. The Unified Buddhist Church (Eglise Bouddhique Unifieé was founded by Thich Nhat Hanh in France in 1969, during the Vietnam War (not part of the A Political party described as a communist party includes those that advocate the application of the social principles of Communism through a communist form of
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