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Vietnamese Buddhist Youth Association

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Vietnamese Buddhist Youth Association
FoundedApril 1951
FounderLê Đình Thám
Location
  • Worldwide
OriginsVietnam
Area served
International
Websitewww.gdptvietnam.org (Vietnamese, Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam's)
www.giadinhphattu.net (Vietnamese, Vietnam Buddhist Sangha's)
Motto: Bi - Trí - Dũng
(Vietnamese: Compassion - Wisdom - Courage)

The Vietnamese Buddhist Youth Association (also known as Vietnamese Buddhist Family (Vietnamese: Gia Đình Phật Tử Việt Nam (GĐPTVN)) is a lay Buddhist youth organisation that seeks to imbue its members with Buddhist ethics.

The organization was originally established in the 1940s, officially name GĐPTVN in 1951 and has been in existence for about 80 years in Vietnam and in Overseas Vietnamese communities since the Fall of Saigon, and are usually associated with Buddhist temples.

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