Hanoi: Summer retreats inspected after incident at Cu Da pagoda

After a young monk was beaten during a summer retreat at Cu Da Pagoda, the Hanoi Religious Affairs Committee will organize a delegation to inspect the organization of summer retreats in the city.

old stone.jpg — *Cu Da Pagoda is located in Cu Khe commune, Thanh Oai district, Hanoi.*

"For retreats that are being or will be held in the city, the Committee will urge and direct a thorough review of facilities and organizational capacity. If the temple feels that it does not meet the conditions, it needs to temporarily suspend the retreat," the leader of the Hanoi Religious Committee shared with Dan Tri.

In the coming time, the Hanoi Religious Committee will also organize a delegation to inspect the organization of summer retreats in the city, focusing on retreats with 200 or more students.

Previously, Ms. GNN posted information on social media with the title "Children's horrifying experience at the summer retreat at Cu Da Pagoda".

Accordingly, her family registered for a 5-day summer retreat for her child at Cu Da Pagoda. The retreat had nearly 600 students, including both male and female students aged 9-16.

On the day she picked up her child, Ms. N. was shocked to see a dirty and smelly person, with mosquito bites all over his limbs.

When asking her child, Ms. N. was told that because the temple was crowded, the water ran out so her child could not bathe. When sleeping, she had to lie on the ground with a mat. It had been a few rainy, windy, humid days with lots of mosquitoes so the child could not sleep.

The woman later discovered that her child's left hand was swollen at the elbow and handcuffed. Her child said that at the temple, there was a fight and a friend hit him hard on the head and hand with a wooden chair. The person in charge told her "don't say you were hit, just say you fell down, if you don't listen, you will be punished by kneeling for 2 hours".

On June 17, Ms. NTGN said that she had met with the abbot of Cu Da Pagoda as well as the representative of the Organizing Committee of the retreat. Thereby, the two sides agreed on the contents of the apology to the student's family, and at the same time, the Organizing Committee returned all the expenses for the recent retreat.

After that, the abbot of Cu Da Pagoda confirmed that from now on, the pagoda will permanently stop all retreats. On the afternoon of June 18, the pagoda received a transfer of 86,000,000 VND from Ms. Pham Thi Thu, Head of the Cu Da Pagoda retreat organizing committee.

Ms. Thu received this money from parents whose children registered for the 3rd course at Cu Da Pagoda. The pagoda is urgently completing the procedures to refund the money to the parents.

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