Many cultural and artistic activities on Vu Lan festival at Ba Den mountain

On the full moon day of July this year, Ba Den Mountain will be a place for Buddhists to express their filial piety to their parents, through many meaningful cultural and spiritual activities and experiences organized within the framework of the Buddhist cultural and artistic program celebrating Vu Lan festival.

The program is organized by Sun World Ba Den Mountain tourist area, Ba Den mountain, with the participation and support of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha.

Ba Den Mountain will be the venue for a Buddhist cultural and artistic program to celebrate Vu Lan festival.

Originating from the story of the great filial Bodhisattva Maudgalyayana saving his mother from the realm of hungry ghosts, Vu Lan festival today is not simply a festival with sacred religious significance, but also a festival of love and filial piety. Over thousands of years, Vu Lan festival has been deeply engraved in the minds of the Vietnamese people, with the morality of drinking water, remembering its source, becoming a "filial piety festival" for Buddhists and the people.

This year, according to the announcement, Vu Lan festival will be held from the first to the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month.

Ba Pagoda system will be decorated brilliantly to celebrate Vu Lan festival.

The program will be organized on a large scale and solemnly, with many activities and sacred experiences at the Ba Mountain pagoda complex and the Ba Den Mountain peak area, from August 26 to September 3 (ie from July 11 to 19 of the lunar calendar).

At the Ba Mountain Pagoda system, the Vu Lan ceremony will be held on September 2-3 (July 18-19 of the lunar calendar), in the grounds of Long Chau Phuoc Trung Pagoda. During the entire seventh lunar month, the Ba Pagoda complex will also be brightly decorated with Buddhist flags, lotus lanterns, etc., creating a sacred festival space to welcome Buddhists and visitors to come and pay their respects to Linh Son Thanh Mau Bodhisattva, praying for peace and luck for their parents.

On the top of Ba Den Mountain, a Buddhist cultural and artistic program celebrating Vu Lan Festival will be held with many unique cultural and artistic performances and solemn rituals according to Buddhist culture, during 2 days, August 26-27 (July 11-12, Quy Mao year).

Buddhists and visitors will hear from Venerable Vien Minh about the meaning of Vu Lan festival.

Accordingly, on August 26, Buddhists and tourists coming to Ba Den Mountain will join the monks and nuns in many cultural and artistic activities and Buddhist rituals such as: practicing chanting and praying for national peace and prosperity; chatting and listening to the sharing from Venerable Elder Vien Minh - Vice President of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha about the legend and meaning of Vu Lan ceremony; parading around the spiritual Prajna Sutra Pillar in the square at the foot of the great statue of Buddha Tay Bo Da Son, praying for peace for parents and all living beings.

Also within the framework of the program, visitors and Buddhists attending will be given roses by venerable monks (nuns), to perform the flower pinning ceremony on their chest, expressing their respect to their parents, remembering the deceased and honoring those still living with their children and grandchildren.

The lamp offering ceremony will take place on the evenings of August 26 and 27.

Immediately after that, the lantern offering parade ceremony will take place at 6 pm on August 26 and 27 (ie July 11-12 of the lunar calendar), for Buddhists and tourists to practice the act of gratitude and filial piety to their parents. Each person will assemble the lantern by hand, write a wish, follow the instructions of the monks (nuns) to read the sutras and pray for the safety of their parents, relatives, and the people, and release the lantern into the water of the area where the Heart Sutra is located, in the middle of the square at the foot of the statue of Buddha Tay Bo Son.

This is a ritual that has been organized by the tourist area on the top of Ba Mountain on occasions of celebrating Quan The Am, Buddha's birthday..., and has been widely responded to and loved by Buddhists and tourists because of its solemnity, sacredness and meaning. The lanterns carry wishes that Buddhists and tourists write by hand and offer to release into the water, then will be burned to ashes, sent to the heavens, hoping for blessings to converge, wishes to come true.

The Vu Lan Festival art program will take place continuously for 3 days: August 26, 27 and 30.

In addition, on August 26, 27 and 30 (ie July 11, 12, 14 of the lunar calendar), at Tam An station stage on the top of the mountain, there will be art performances with the theme "Offering a thousand respects - Fulfilling the duty of being a child". With two performances each day at 9am and 11am, the artists will perform songs honoring the love of mothers and fathers, taking the audience on an emotional journey through melodies, to calm down, remember and show gratitude to the parents.

This is the first year that the Buddhist cultural and artistic program celebrating Vu Lan festival has been organized on a large scale and solemnly at Ba Mountain. It is known that these activities will be maintained and organized annually, to increase the experience for visitors, creating opportunities for Buddhists to express their respect to their parents, on the highest sacred mountain in the South.

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