New Year’s Praying Ceremony for Peace at Tay Khanh - Thai Binh

In the warmly early spring, people who enthusiastically welcome a new year with a lot of of dreams and brimful aspirations of all people in the country as well as Buddhists in five continents to find the spiritual source of our own ancestors, looking back to the noble traditional values of national culture interjected as simple rustic lifestyle of their ancestors.

Over the years, instructed by Ven. Senior Thich Chan Tinh, Venerable Junior Thich Tam Kinh  guided Buddhists at Tay Khanh pagoda, Cao Mai, Quang Hung Commune, Kien Xuong District, Thai Binh Province and practised together making the Doctrines of  Buddhism develop prosperously.

 

Whatsoever, spring is also the festival season of Vietnamese going to pagoda and prostrating the Budda to pray for peace for their families and for themselves so that they would have peaceful and lucky, prosperous life in the new year. On February 12th, 2016 (Lunar January 5th,  Monkey Year) in Tay Khanh Pagoda, Cao Mai, Quang Hung Commune, Kien Xuong District, Thai Binh Province, the Venerable held a praying ceremony for peace, and at the same time all Venerable, monks belonging to the branches of Hoang Phap temple had gathered at Tay Khanh Pagoda to worship Buddha, burning incense to express Buddhists duty to the Buddha. The Abbot Venerable Thich Tam Kinh shared the Dharma to Buddhists. In the Dharma, the Jun. Venerable mentioned about the purposes, as well as the true meaning of going to the pagoda to pray for peace for their families. Many people think that, going to pagoda is just worshiping and praying Buddha and divine beings to bring luck to themselves and their relatives but they do not understand going to the temple is to find for themselves the valuable lessons,in which Buddha's teachings can be applied to life. He also said that receiving a lucky envelop which donated by the Monks without observing  and reading the verses  printed on it, just knew to receive but not to read to analyse to understand the meaning of brief and understandable verses. They put it away to the altar of their house to worship. At the end of the year they would tidy up the altar and threw them away.

 

 After the sermon, the whole assembly entered the praying ceremony in their pleasure.

 

Before leaving, the Buddhists received the Dharma gifts including: a lucky envelop and a DVD of Phap Luan (Dharma Journey)

 

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