The important event in the Russian Vietnamese studies

This is a review of the book “Spiritual Culture of Vietnam: Traditional Religious and Mythological Views of Vietnamese” by E.Yu. Knorozova. The author summarizes her many years’ studies on mythology and religious views of Vietnamese, on their forming and development beginning from ancient times up to nowadays. The monograph is based on concrete translations and studies of numerous original sources (which the author has worked at for decades), taking into account all the available works by Russian and foreign researchers. In fact, the book is an encyclopedia of traditional spiritual life of the Vietnamese people, distinctive from spiritual life of other peoples, which up today has a great influence on the state ideology and policy of Vietnam. The completeness of materials, convincing and irreproachable arguments in favor of the author’s conclusions will undoubtedly give long and happy life to the book, as one of the buttresses for future studies on similar and closely-related problems.

Vietnam’s religions, Vietnam’s mythology, history of Vietnam