The Ba Temple complex at Ba Den Mountain in Tay Ninh was chosen as the venue for the largest Tam Hoa X Great Ordination Platform ever, with the participation of more than 400 venerable monks, nuns and candidates.
In Buddhist culture, the Great Ordination Platform is the most important festival, the place to celebrate the rituals of preaching, transmitting and receiving precepts. Taking place for 4 days from August 5 to August 8, the Tam Hoa X Great Ordination Platform has become the biggest event of the Executive Committee of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha in Tay Ninh province. The Tam Hoa X Great Ordination Platform is organized by the Executive Committee of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha in the province every 3 years, to transmit precepts, to meet the wishes of receiving precepts of the candidates in and outside the province to study, practice, and be dignified, contributing to the dignification of the Sangha. Photo: Sun World Ba Den Mountain
The Tam Hoa X Great Ordination Platform has 232 candidates registered to receive the precepts. The ordination for monks is held at Linh Son Phuoc Trung Pagoda at the foot of Ba Den Mountain and the ordination for nuns is held at Long Chau Phuoc Trung Pagoda, part of the Ba Den Pagoda complex. Photo: Sun World Ba Den Mountain
The Ba Pagoda complex consists of 6 pagodas on Ba Den Mountain, of which Linh Son Tien Thach Tu is the oldest pagoda with a history of 300 years, associated with the legend of Linh Son Thanh Mau, revered as Bodhisattva and a symbol of belief of the people of the South. Photo: Ngo Tran Hai An
After the closing ceremony of the Tam Hoa X Great Ordination Platform on the morning of August 8, 300 venerable monks, nuns and candidates went to Ba Den peak to worship the statue of Buddha Tay Bo Da Son on the highest mountain in Asia and the large-scale Buddhist exhibition area at the foot of the statue. Photo: Giang Chau Phuong
The monks bowed before the relics of Buddha Shakyamuni, solemnly enshrined in a two-story glass stupa, in the middle of the sacred relic space at the Buddhist exhibition center at the foot of the statue of Buddha Tay Bo Da Son. This is the Buddha's jade relic presented to Vietnam by the World Buddhist Federation in Bodh Gaya, India in 2014, making Ba Den Mountain a rare place in Vietnam chosen to preserve "treasures of the Buddhist world". Photo: Giang Chau Phuong
The large square on the top of the mountain with the Prajnaparamita Sutra pillar engraved with 12,000 gilded Tibetan characters is overwhelmed by the color of the monks' robes. For monks, the Prajnaparamita Sutra is a torch that lights the path to enlightenment, and the journey to worship the Prajnaparamita Sutra pillar is considered a journey for monks to reach wisdom and peace, conveying the great meaning of the path to enlightenment. Venerable Thich Thien Thuc - Deputy Head and Chief Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha in Tay Ninh province shared: "The complex on the top of Ba Den mountain is a sacred relic, and I have an intuition that this place is very sacred and miraculous". Photo: Giang Chau Phuong
Monks and nuns pray and turn the prayer wheel on the second floor of the Buddhist exhibition area at the foot of the giant statue of Buddha Ba Den Mountain on the top of the mountain. This is a type of ritual instrument used by Tibetan Buddhists for chanting. It is believed that turning the prayer wheel is the simplest way to create immeasurable merit, just touching the prayer wheel is a great purification in eliminating bad karma. Photo: Sun World Ba Den Mountain
In the large space of the exhibition area, the candidates also visited the area displaying simulated versions of classic Buddhist artworks, including many famous Buddha statues from Vietnam and the world. Many versions of Buddhist architectural artifacts made of wood and stone dating from the 11th to 13th centuries were also displayed in the Buddhist exhibition area on top of Ba Den Mountain. Photo: Sun World Ba Den Mountain
The 3D mapping cinema area is where students learn and explore the universe in Buddhist concepts through video mapping technology with the world's leading modern projection and sound equipment. Photo: Giang Chau Phuong
The 3D Hologram technology zone offers monks the experience of visiting 16 ancient pagodas, dating back 200 years, such as Bo Da, Vinh Nghiem, Phat Tich, Huong, But Thap, Thien Mu pagodas, etc., in a floating three-dimensional space. Photo: Sun World Ba Den Mountain
Considered the most sacred mountain in the South, Ba Den Mountain is not only the place where many major Buddhist cultural events in Tay Ninh province take place, but is also the leading pilgrimage and worship destination in the Southern region. According to statistics from Sun World Ba Den Mountain Tourist Area, in just 7 months of 2023, there were 3.7 million visitors taking the cable car up the mountain, and this number promises to continue to increase in the last months of the year when many large-scale cultural and spiritual events are about to be organized such as the Vu Lan ceremony of filial piety, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva's renunciation ceremony... Photo: Nguyen Minh Tu.
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