Phan Phú Tiên and nineteenth-century Vietnamese Mahayana miracle traditions

Record summary

Vietnamese Buddhist communities preserved and recopied hagiographic materials describing visions, relics, miraculous images and encounters between monks and protective deities. Nineteenth-century temple manuscripts and printed religious works are valuable for studying how older Buddhist miracle narratives were transmitted under Nguyễn rule and colonial-era change. The relevant comparison is textual and historical: it concerns genre, ritual authority and manuscript circulation rather than a verified paranormal incident. Individual titles, temple collections and recension histories need to be identified, since “Vietnamese Buddhist miracle tradition” encompasses many unrelated narratives.