Buddhism in the Czech Republic

The Vietnamese practice mainly Mahayana Buddhism with some syncretism of ancestor worship, Confucianism and Taoism.

[3] The remainder consists of a significant number of Czechs who have converted (mainly to Theravada or Vajrayana Buddhism) and the smaller communities of overseas Chinese and Koreans.

Thien An Buddhist Pagoda in the northern province of Varnsdorf was the first Vietnamese style temple to be consecrated in the Czech Republic, in January 2008.

The Diamond Way tradition of Vajrayana Buddhism, founded and directed by Ole Nydahl is active in both the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

With this act, Czechoslovakia delayed the spread of the Buddhist faith by 40 years compared to Western countries.Leopold Procházka, Fráňa Drtikol , Eduard and Míla Tomášová, and Květoslav Minařík can be considered the leading popularizers of Buddhism in Czechoslovakia in the 20th century .