Vĩnh Long Province
The founding patriarch of the "khất sĩ" tradition was Thích Minh Đăng Quang, who was born Nguyễn Thành Đạt in 1923 to a peasant family from the village of Phú Hậu, Bình Phú prefecture, Tam Bình District in Vĩnh Long Province in the Mekong Delta. He founded the tradition in 1944 with the vow "Nối truyền Thích-ca chánh pháp Đạo Phật Khất sĩ Việt Nam" ("Transmitting the correct dharma of Sakyamuni, Khất sĩ Buddhism of Vietnam"), which came to be the motto of the "khất sĩ" tradition. Although he disappeared in 1954, his followers continued to expand and went on to open Tinh Xa Trung Tam.