Through the essay “The sociological approach on religious facts” (L’approche sociologique des faits religieux) of Émile Durkheim (1858 - 1917) and Max Weber (1864 - 1920), this article clarified the context, characteristics and consequence of the relationship between Buddhism and politics in Vietnam at the beginning of the independent millennium. | Buddhism and politics in Đai Viet at the beginning of the independent millennium - Approaching from an essay of Max Weber