Wedding Ceremony at the pagoda

Hoang Phap Pagoda solemnly organized a wedding ceremony on Dec. 10th, 2023 (Oct. 28th, LC) for the couples:

1. Dang Tien Khoa (Dharma name Tinh Khoa) and Huynh Thi Thai Binh (Dharma name Lien Binh)

2. Lam Huynh Dong Tan (Dharma name Tinh Tan) and Duong Thi Mai Phuong (Dharma name Dieu Loan)

3. Do Minh Phuong and Nguyen To Nu (Dharma name Nhuan Ngoc)

4. Nguyen Duy Dung and Nguyen Thi My Duyen (Dharma name Lien Duyen)

5. Pham Van Sang and Nguyen Cao Tuyet Ngan (Dharma name Lien Ngan)

6. Dao Trong Tan (Dharma name Tinh Tan) and Dam Thi Thuy Hang (Dharma name Lien Hang) 

The wedding ceremony at the pagoda is an opportunity for the groom and the bride to listen to the monks conveying Buddha's teachings on the way of being a wife, a husband, a bride, a groom and a parent in the future. This organizing at the temple is to create conditions for the couple to rely on the support of the Sangha, Three Jewels.

The groom and bride performed traditional rites, such as prostrating Three Jewels and parents, giving wedding rings for each other and vowing whole life to live to follow the moral principles that the Buddha taught by the witness of Triple Jewel and their relatives.

On behalf of present monks, Junior Thich Tam Truong, Abbot of the pagoda, had teachings on the principles to husband and wife. The key to a happy family is harmony. "Harmony" is the root of happiness. The husband and wife getting along will be a warm and happy couple, the parents getting along with their children will maintain family morality, and the education for the next generations will be easier.

The Junior also reminded the couple to carefully prepare the necessary issues for their future. It is the returning to rely on the Three Jewels, keeping on five precepts. Each member in the family needs to study Buddha Dharma, live a good life, and believe in the law of cause and effect. The five precepts are the basic ethics of being human. The keeper of five precepts will have peace for this life and the next life.