When thinking of the Theravada Buddhist tradition, most people think of the five countries which are traditionally considered to be the countries of the Theravada tradition. Those five countries are: รท Lanka, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand. Interestingly nobody seems to know that outside of the five countries mentioned above there is also a historical presence of the Theravada tradition from ancient times in Vietnam. This presence of Theravada tradition is in a remote part of Southern Vietnam. How did it come to be? We will know about it in detail as follows: