Touching moments of tourists worshiping Ba Den mountain, Tay Ninh

ANTD.VN - Ba Den Mountain with the ancient Linh Son Tien Thach pagoda and the legend of Linh Son Thanh Mau Bodhisattva is a sacred land, where there are many sacred and emotional experiences that cannot be found anywhere else.

Millions of tourists come to Ba Temple every year to find spiritual support, to send their prayers to Linh Son Thanh Mau - the highest symbol in the spiritual life of the Southern people. Many people believe that all sorrows, illnesses, and deprivations are heard by Linh Son Thanh Mau, and are universally saved with the compassionate heart of Bodhisattva.

Young people pray for wealth, the elderly pray for peace, the sick pray for health... Many people choose to visit the sacred mountain every year to visit the Lady at the system of 6 pagodas and many shrines and caves associated with sacred legends.

On the mountain top, lighting flower lanterns is one of the long-standing traditional rituals of Buddhism that often takes place on holidays. This is a meaningful activity that is loved by many Buddhists and tourists, who are willing to stay in the evening to practice offering lanterns. Thousands of shimmering lanterns light up the virtual mountain top in the clouds, creating an extremely magical and sacred space for tourists.

In Buddhist culture, the lamp in the flower symbolizes the impermanence of life, so lighting a flower lantern is a wish to receive blessings and peace. The flower lantern also symbolizes the lamp of wisdom, illuminating the path for Buddhists in the dark night of ignorance.

At Ba Den Mountain, each lantern is assembled by Buddhists and tourists with wishes written on it, and is released onto a magical water dish flowing around the Prajna Sutra pillar at the foot of the great statue of Buddha Tay Bo Da Son. After each night of offering lanterns, the lanterns with wishes will be burned by the organizers, hoping that the wishes will come true.

The emotional flower offering ceremony on Ba Den Mountain is often solemnly and sacredly held to celebrate major Buddhist holidays such as Buddha's Birthday, Vu Lan Festival, Linh Son Holy Mother Festival, Quan The Am Bodhisattva Festival, Maitreya Buddha Festival...

Coming here, on the evenings of Saturday and Sunday, November 4 and 5 (ie September 21 and 22 of the lunar calendar), visitors to Ba Den Mountain will be able to participate in the candle offering ceremony to celebrate the renunciation of Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. This sacred experience will be a moment for Buddhists and visitors to pay their respects to the great merits of Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara and send wishes for themselves and their families.

Paying homage to the relics of Buddha Shakyamuni is also an extremely precious experience for visitors when making a pilgrimage to Ba Den Mountain. The Buddha's relics are revered as a treasure and are considered a miracle of Buddhism, the result of the process of moral cultivation and the great compassion of Buddha Shakyamuni.

Ba Den Mountain is a rare place in Vietnam where the relics of Buddha Shakyamuni are preserved. At the top of the mountain, the Buddha's relics are 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.

For Buddhists, being able to worship the relics of Buddha Shakyamuni is a miracle, just like seeing Buddha still present in this world, with compassion, joy, and forgiveness, saving all living beings.

For many visitors to Ba Den Mountain, worshiping the Great Buddha Statue of Tay Bo Da Son on the highest mountain in Asia is an experience that must be tried many times in a lifetime. Sometimes hidden in the sea of floating clouds, sometimes shining amidst the beautiful scenery on the mountain top, the majestic Buddha Statue of Tay Bo Da Son sits on a bronze lotus platform, symbolizing wisdom, virtue and compassion for all living beings.

From the lotus petals at the foot of the Buddha statue of Tay Bo Da Son, pure waterfalls pour down. For many people, the water is like the embodiment of the spread of compassion of Bodhisattva to save all living beings.

Many major Buddhist festivals are regularly held at Ba Den Mountain, such as Maitreya Buddha's Birthday in early January, Buddha's Birthday in the fourth lunar month, Vu Lan Festival in the seventh lunar month, and Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva's Renunciation Festival in the ninth lunar month. These major festivals are occasions for Buddhists and tourists to visit Ba Den Mountain as if they were visiting a Buddhist holy land, to seek a solid spiritual support.

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