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Vietnam’s new National Assembly expected to boost India ties on key regional issues As Asian countries invested in their cultures, India and Vietnam share a deep historic bond. Emerging from a sense of history, the two nations also have cultural and economic linkages that date back over 2000 years. Notably, in the second half of the 2nd century BC two Indian Buddhist Zen monks; Mahajavaka and Kalyanacuriare credited with founding Buddhism in Vietnam. Later, in the 3rd century AD K’ang-seng-huei, a famous Zen monk, first migrated to India and subsequently travelled to Vietnam. Through the course of the 13th and...
