Abstract

Buddhism was introduced to Vietnam at the beginning of the Common Era. Due to many similarities with indigenous beliefs and culture, Buddhism has quickly become an element of Vietnamese cultural identity. According to the flow of history, the spirit of compassion, joy, forgiveness, tolerance, peace, harmony, good direction, and liberation of people from suffering... of Buddhism has permeated the lifestyle and thinking of great people majority of Vietnamese. Today, Vietnamese society today faces many opportunities for strong development, but along with it comes many difficulties and challenges. The development process is influenced by both positive and negative sides of the market mechanism, international economic integration leads to the globalization trend, the contradictions of the transition period on socialism... for people's spiritual life to have many wobbles and insecurity. In that context, Buddhism with the way out of suffering has become a part of the spiritual life of a large part of the people. Promoting the role of Buddhism with human values that play a very important role in liberating people has become the "compensation" of the real world, meeting spiritual needs, contributing to Part of relieving mental suffering, gaps, and disappointments in people's hearts, restoring a certain balance can help people live more harmoniously for their spiritual life. This is also a basis for explaining the revival of Buddhism in particular and religion in general in the current period. The article analyzes the content of the thought of the Five Aggregates in Theravada Buddhist philosophy.