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The Vesak Celebration at Hung Phap Pagoda - Dong Nai
Update: 23/05/2016
The ceremony took place in the presence of all honored monks in the Buddhism managing Board in Bình Thuan province, Xuan Loc District, and all the honored abbots of monasteries with Buddhists in this district area have attended.
At 9 AM sharp, the Vesak celebration officially started. The rituals board had a respectful request all honored monks and nuns to coming to stand for celebrating the rites of incense praise at Buddha recitation. Next, balloons were released in the high sky of Hung Phap pagoda in praying for a peaceful world and bliss for living beings.
After proclaiming the reason and introducing the program of ceremony; the whole of bodhimandala was fixed their thought saving one minute in memory of Sakyamuni Buddha in the boundless veneration; Due to be moved with pity for sentient beings sunk in ignorance, He manifested in the world to display the way for release and ending suffering.
The next was rites to offer flowers to the Buddha from teenagers of Hung Phap pagoda' Buddhists family. Junior Venerable Thich Tam Tien, on behalf of the organizing board, made a speech to open the ceremony. After that Junior Venerable Thich Tam Nguyen told the meaning of ceremony to the whole of bodhimandala.
The directors from board of ceremony, Most Venerable Thich Giac Minh who verified to the Buddhism managing board in Binh Thuan province; shared some things about the essential points in Buddha's life with the masses in order to remind Buddhists who considered Him as a sample for learning and moving forward in practice, and then achieving the ideal of liberation.
The end of ceremony, all the honored monks and nuns and buddhists together
The ceremony ended in the joy of all.
Translated into English by Ms. Giac Ngoc.