Management Board of Vietnamese Buddhist Propaganda (MBVBP) in Hoc Mon district holds Pravaranà Ceremony at Phap Buu Pagoda

Today Sep 02, 2017 (Jul 12, lunar calendar), monks from Hoang Phap Pagoda and others gather at Phap Buu Pagoda, the summer retreat of MBVBP in Hoc Mon Dist, on the occasion of Pravaranà ceremony.

Pravaranà, (Tu Tu in Chinese) is a ceremony performed by Buddhism monks on the last day of Summer Retreat, in which they publicly confess their offences and repent their errors. It is possible for the mass to acknowledge and point out the errors of the monk(s) to help him repent. A monk will review such feedback and sincerely repent on his errors (if any) to make his mind pure. Thanks to those advices that everyone becomes better and better deserving the title of Buddhist (son/daughter of Tathagata).

Beyond usual ways of secular behavior, clergy people apply Pravaranà with subtle and tolerant manner to build up Sangha a pure and happy community with harmonization and selfless aiming to the ultimate goal of enlightenment and liberation. To achieve that, we should try our best to cease clinging manner and tri-poisons (greed - hatred – delusion) in mind that are the main obstacles on our Path to the enlightenment. Every practitioner knows that.

With the witness of the Most Venerables, Senior Venerables and Venerables and the supports from devout Buddhists, the Pravaranà ceremony fulfills in the joys of all.

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