On December 23, 2023, in Vietnam, a rumor spread about the eight head hairs of Buddha displayed at Ba Vàng Temple, Quảng Ninh province, North Vietnam that attracted tens of thousands of Vietnamese Buddhists rush to see the wonderful heritage of Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) who pulled out his head hairs and handed over to two Myanmar businessmen from 2,600 years ago. The eight head hairs of Buddha became the holy legacy of Buddhism stored at the golden temple Shwedagon in Yangon City, Myanmar with the tower covered by pure gold. The Buddhists in Myanmar come to pray and worship to adore the Buddha and his legacy.
Therefore, the Ba Vàng Temple in Vietnam launched a superstition campaign to attract the Buddhists in Vietnam, and also created controversy among the Buddhists, including the concerned Buddhists in Vietnam, and overseas. Nowadays, the religious Buddhism in Vietnam turned business when the communists (Vietcong) expelled the monks and nuns from their temples throughout Vietnam and replaced the atheist monks, and nuns taking control the Buddhism. Nevertheless, the Vietcong’s Police Academy also trained the religious police officers, and they became the heads, or the religious officials of Buddhist temples and some Catholic Churches. Moreover, the Vietcong regime also sent religious police officers wearing the saffron uniform (Buddhism), and the Black uniform of priests to the overseas Vietnamese community. The communist monks, nuns, and Priests used the religious faith and bible to propaganda and also collected money to cover the label of charity. The overseas Vietnamese people warned about the fake monks, nuns (called Yellow cows, the uniform of Vietcong’s police), and priests (called black crows) arriving at the religious firms. Nevertheless, the Vietcong also used the overseas temples as espionage bases to pursue the anti-communist activists in the democratic countries. Vietcong exploited the religious faith, and the negligent immigration policy of Western countries, so the Vietnamese temples overseas inundated the Vietcong monks and nuns using the veterinarian cuisine to attract the Buddhists covering the political activities, and collecting money.
Ba Vàng Temple is the greatest Buddhist firm in Quảng Ninh province, the Vietcong high profile invested in the religious business, and used Buddhism for politics to control the Buddhists plus the visitors. The Buddhists must be careful when visiting the temples that are led by socialism, the monks, and nuns should be the police officers, and espionage agents. The unknown eight-head hairs of Siddhartha Gautama were the new religious business, so the Vietcong government and the temple launched religious psychological warfare to attract tens of thousands of superstitious Buddhists to flock to Ba Vàng Temple to see the Buddha’s head hairs. The heritage of Siddhartha Gautama made a profit for the temple by donations and the restaurants, hotels boomed the visitors, those were the businesses of Vietcong’s high-ranking officials. Therefore, the concerned Buddhists question the eight head hairs of Buddha, where did the Ba Vàng Temple get it when those hairs belong to the golden temple Shwedagon? The Myanmar government can confirm the real head hairs of Buddha, Vietcong stole the eight head hairs of Buddha from Shwedagon Temple, or the fake hairs. Possibly, one day, the Ba Vàng Temple, or other Vietcong temples spread about the hairs of Buddha found at a temple in India. Therefore, the different sorts of Buddha’s hairs can not be adored on the altar, and put in the main hall.
The Buddhist businesses boomed in Vietnam and the overseas Vietnamese community. Before, the story spread about the Australian couple Ian Green and Judy Green who found 18 tonnes of jade at a mountain in North Canada in 2000, then the famous sculptor in Thailand made the Buddha Jade statue. The statue labeled World Peace was displayed at Nam Hải Temple located at the foothill of Hải Vân’s mountain, Đà Nẵng province. Therefore, the 18 Jade tonnes belong to Canadian assets, how could the Australian couple take, and bring them to offshore countries? Nevertheless, the Buddhist business company brought the Buddha Jade Statue to collect money in the overseas Vietnamese community in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. Therefore, the container of the Buddha Jade Statue crashed in Europe, the statue was damaged and woke up the superstition Buddhists discovered the Buddha Jade Statue is not holy. The Buddha is in the heart, not a statue, or anything else. Therefore, the Buddhist business company collected tens of millions of US dollars. The lesson of the Buddha Jade Statue has not been learned yet, so the new business of the eight-head Buddha hairs continues to deceive the superstitious Buddhists in Vietnam. Possibly, the Buddha business company in Vietnam should bring the Buddha hairs to display, and collect the money from the Buddhists in the overseas Vietnamese community around the world.
According to the historical record in Vietnam, Buddhism rarely finds a true monk or nun. Instead the bible reading technicians, the Buddhist ritual technicians, the Buddha’s worship technicians, and the funeral service technicians, plus the monetary professional collectors. The distorted Buddhism officials (not the monks, and nuns) related the fate of the Vietnamese people and the history. In 1848, Prince Nguyễn Phúc Hồng Nhậm became the King of Nguyễn Dynasty. Initially, Tự Đức King issued the decree to ban Catholics because the Nguyễn’s dynasty was deeply influenced by Buddhism with the selfish low-level monks. The cruel ban discriminated against the Catholics to behead whoever followed Catholics that called heresy. The terror-covered society in the days of yore caused thousands of Vietnamese Catholic adherents to hide in the jungle. The Catholic ban of Tự Đức King caused France raised the reason to invade Vietnam, and France colonized Vietnam from 1884 to 1954 and continued the Vietnam War while Thailand was a country of Buddhism, therefore, the Thai King opened his mind by unleashing the door, so Thailand avoided the colonization of Europe, and the dire consequences including the communism.
The selfishness and low concern of the Buddhist officials to discriminate against any religion including the Vietnamese religion as Hòa Hảo. The prime founder was prophet Đoàn Minh Huyên created the new religion called Bửu Sơn Kỳ Hương in 1849. He used the water to treat the pandemic and the people followed. The selfish Buddhist officials informed the government and Prophet Đoàn Minh Huyên was arrested and detained in Rạch Gía Province’s prison. The legendary story described the admiral and the miracle of the Prophet, during being in prison, the government officials also saw him at Rạch Gía market. Eventually, the government released and imposed him in the Buddhist cult” Trúc Lâm”, despite he was not a Buddhist, he continued to develop his religion until decease on October 9, 1856, aged 49.
Later, the religious Hòa Hảo was founded by Prophet Huỳnh Phú Sổ who was not Buddhist, and Hòa Hảo is different from Buddhism. The religious Hòa Hảo’s altar adores the brown cloth (symbolizing the poor people, and peasants), the Yellow flag with tree oriental stripes, not any Buddha such as Bodhisatta, but Hòa Hảo adores the Vietnamese national hero is the Superior Official Nguyễn Trung Trực who was the famous resistant leader to fight against French colonial regime. The reason for calling the Hòa Hảo Buddha Region (Phật Giáo Hòa Hảo) was to avoid the attack and the allergy of the selfish Buddhists in Vietnam. Nowadays, the religious Hòa Hào can use the real name Đạo Hòa Hảo. Radically, the Hòa Hào adherents protect the country while the Buddhism adherents do not. When the foreigner invades the country, Hòa Hảo adherents enter the battle, while the Buddhist adherents enter the temples. In the Vietnam War, the Ấn Quang Temple (*) was the den of Vietcong’s under-covered activists and espionage agents. The communist monks contributed to the victory of the Vietcong on April 30, 1975. Therefore, the Vietcong monks and nuns split when Vietnam’s Communist Party wanted to control Buddhism. The internal conflict and the Buddhism purge started in 1982 when the Vietcong’s senior monk, Senior Venerable Thích Trí Tịnh founded Vietnam’s Buddhist Association at Quán Sứ Temple, Hanoi that opposes the Phật Giáo Việt Nam Thống Nhất (Unified Buddhism of Vietnam) being purged as the term” throwing the lemon skin after Juice emptied”. Nowadays, Buddhism in Vietnam is controlled by the communist party, and they do the Buddha business such as the Buddha Jade Statue and the eight head hairs of Buddha. The incident of the eight head hairs of Buddha displayed at Ba Vàng Temple was released in the Vietnamese language, so the Myanmar People and government limited the information. Therefore, thedawnmedia released the news written in English, so the world and Myanmar people can access, and clarify the story/.
NOTES (*):
The history couldn’t be distorted because Buddhism in Vietnam contributed to the national disaster. Almost all the Buddhist leaders were communists, excluded Senior Venerable Thích Tịnh Khiết (Nguyễn Văn Kỉnh), the First Monk Chief.
-The Second Monk Chief was Senior Venerable Thích Đôn Hậu (Diệp Trương Thuần) who was deeply involved in the massacre at Huế in the Tết Offensive in 1968. After killing more than 7,000 people, the Vietcong was driven out by the ARVN. The Vietcong troops to withdraw with Thích Đôn Hậu and his de facto Đào Thị Xuân Yến, nicknamed Tùng Chi. After the Vietcong occupied South Vietnam on April 30, 1975, Thích Đôn Hậu returned the South Vietnam
-The Third Monk Chief, Senior Venerable Thích Huyền Quang (Lê Đình Nhàn), nicknamed Ba Quang held the chair of the Buddhist Committee of the Fifth Interzones in the Indochina War. Senior Venerable Thích Huyền Quang confronted with the religious purge of Vietnam’s Communist Party
-The Fourth Monk Chief Thích Quảng Độ (Đặng Phúc Tuệ) was the high ranking monk of Ấn Quang Temple before 1975. Therefore, the Buddhist purge caused to arrest of Thích Quảng Độ, and Thích Thiện Minh (Đổ Xuân Hàn). During imprisonment, Thích Thiện Minh strongly reacted against the arrest, and he was beaten to death by Vietcong’s police. Therefore, Thích Quảng Độ confessed with self-criticism, he was released and became the fake opponent. The Vietnamese refugees sent a lot of money to support Thích Quảng Độ and the Unified Buddhism of Vietnam until he called the campaign” protest at home” which debunked the fake opponent. The Deputy of the Fourth Monk Chief was Senior Venerable Thích Hộ Giác (Ngô Bửu Đạt), in the Vietnam War Thích Hộ Giác, vowed to fight against the Republic of Vietnam’s government, and the America Empire to the last drop of blood. Therefore, in 1982, Thích Hộ Giác fled to the United States and resettled a new life in Texas, he collected the money to build millions of US dollars Pháp Luân Temple, and died on December 5, 2012, with a great funeral. Moreover, during the Vietnam War, Ấn Quang Temple sent Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh, and võ Văn Ái overseas, they became the anti-war, and pro-communist movement in France and somewhere else/
The circumstances of Senior Venerable Thích Trí Siêu (Lê Mạnh Phát) and Thích Trí Siêu (Phạm Văn Thương) reflect the Buddhist purge as the Hanoi regime applies aiming to control the Buddhism in Vietnam/.
(thedawnmedia.com)