Le Vu Lan (Filial Piety ceremony, or Ghost festival) may soon be
recognised as a national festival of Vietnamese culture. The Centre for
Religious Cultural Heritage Preservation has submitted the festival to
the State for recognising.
During the Vu Lan season this month, which takes place during the
seventh lunar month, many Vietnamese visit vegetarian restaurants, not
to purify their Buddhist souls but to escape urban pollution and noise.
Monks hold the largest ever Buddhism prayer book on the Vu Lan festival
as it is recognised by the Viet Nam Book of Records at Thien Chanh
Pagoda in HCM City''s Tan Phu District on Sunday.
HCM City cultural centres and art troupes are set to
put on a slew of shows to celebrate the annual Buddhist holiday of Vu
Lan, an event that eulogises motherly love celebrated through the
seventh lunar month which began on Sunday.
Worshippers burn incense at the Quan Su Pagoda on Quan Su Street in Ha Noi. Vietnamese are celebrating the vu lan festival to express their gratefulness to their deceased parents, grand parents and other ancestors.
Vietnamese paragliders didn''t make the top three in
either the men''s or women''s event at the first Viet Nam Paragliding Open
held recently in the northern province of Hoa Binh.
Cultural centres and art troupes in HCM City have
begun a series of events for Vu Lan, an annual Buddhist festival
celebrated in the seventh lunar month to eulogise motherly love.
After a few months of be-ing up to our ears in work,
we decide to break away from noisy Ha Noi. Phat Tich Pagoda, a place of
peace and quiet, seems like an ideal option for a day trip.
Every Wednesday and Friday morning, 16-year-old
Nguyen Dinh Tuan plays football at the Phu Dong Sports Club. For one
hour, he and his friends from the Niem Vui School for the hearing
impaired in the central province of Phu Yen practise dribbling and...
