Vu Lan Festival is an important occasion of the year, this is the time when families show their respect to Buddha and show their gratitude to their ancestors, so what day is Vu Lan Festival 2023?
Vu Lan Festival has its origins in Buddhism and is held on the 15th day of the 7th lunar month every year. This is not only a day for Buddhists but also a season of gratitude and filial piety for all children towards their parents who gave birth to and raised them.
What date is Vu Lan Day 2023 in the Gregorian calendar?
Vu Lan Festival is an important festival of Buddhism and Buddhists. This is an occasion for people to express their gratitude and gratitude to their parents for giving birth and raising them. With such great humanitarian meaning, Vu Lan Festival has spread widely, becoming a festival of filial piety for Vietnamese people.
This ceremony takes place on the 15th day of the 7th lunar month every year. Therefore, in 2023, Vu Lan ceremony will fall on Wednesday, August 30th of the Gregorian calendar.
Origin and meaning of Vu Lan festival
The origin of Vu Lan festival comes from the story of Maudgalyayana saving his mother from the realm of hungry ghosts in hell. Thanh De (Maudgalyayana's mother) was a very extravagant, greedy, cruel person and did not believe in the Three Jewels.
Every day, she cooked a lot of food and left it all over the ground. As for her son, Maudgalyayana, he was gentle and hard-working, the complete opposite of his mother.
The boy always picked up the rice grains his mother dropped, washed them, and ate them again. Therefore, everyone around him and his acquaintances loved him very much and praised him. After Thanh De passed away, Maudgalyayana asked to become a monk and became a disciple of the Buddha. When he had obtained magic, Maudgalyayana used his wisdom eye to search for his mother everywhere in heaven and earth, and finally found his mother in the great hell.
Maudgalyayana saw his mother with disheveled hair, her body was nothing but skin and bones, hungry and thirsty, face down on the ground, unable to lift her head. Maudgalyayana was extremely heartbroken, hugged his mother and cried, then offered her a bowl of rice to eat to ease her hunger.
However, Thanh De was still too greedy, so when the rice reached her mouth, it had turned into red fire, unable to be eaten. Maudgalyayana was helpless when he saw this scene, and felt even more heartbroken that he could not save his mother and turned back to seek help from the Buddha.
The Buddha said that if one wanted to save one's mother from suffering and be reborn in a good realm, then on the 15th day of the 7th lunar month, which is the day of the monks' self-ordination, one should invite all the monks and prepare a ceremony to make offerings to the Triple Gem to gain merit in saving one's mother. He followed the Buddha's words and the mother was liberated. The Buddha also taught that any sentient being who wants to show filial piety to their parents can also perform the Vu Lan Bon ritual. From then on, the Vu Lan festival was born, becoming a day of gratitude and filial piety in Buddhism.
For Vietnamese people - a nation that values filial piety, Vu Lan festival is highly regarded, an occasion to remember the merits of parents and ancestors in general, reminding each person to cherish the days when they are still with their parents, always remember the merits of giving birth and doing filial deeds.
MAI LINH (vtc.vn)
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