Ngu Tu Pagoda organizes the Vu Lan filial piety festival.

(Baonghean.vn) - On the morning of August 29th, which is the 16th day of the 7th lunar month, the Nguu Tu Pagoda (Thanh Chuong district) held the Vu Lan filial piety ceremony, Buddhist calendar 2559, cast a Bodhisattva statue, and broke ground for the construction of the main hall.

Attending the ceremony were representatives from the Executive Board of the Vietnam Buddhist Association of Nghe An province, representatives from the Department of Internal Affairs, the District Party Committee, the People's Council, the People's Committee, the Fatherland Front Committee and various departments and agencies of Thanh Chuong district, representatives from the Party Committee, People's Council, People's Committee and Fatherland Front Committee of Dung town and Thanh Dong commune, businesses, and a large number of monks, nuns and Buddhist followers from within and outside the province.

Scenes from the ceremony

Rose pinning ceremony

Ritual of offering gifts to parents

Buddhist monks and representatives from the province and district participated in the groundbreaking ceremony.

The Vu Lan Festival aims to offer alms and repay the kindness of ancestors, expressing the filial piety of Buddhist followers towards the immense contributions of their parents in the spirit of "Gratitude and Repayment," a beautiful aspect of our nation's traditional culture.

Ceremony of pouring molten bronze to cast the Bodhisattva statue.

In the solemn and respectful atmosphere of the ceremony, monks and Buddhists solemnly performed rituals such as offering flowers, escorting the ancestral tablets of fallen heroes and ancestors, offering robes to venerable monks, offering gifts to living parents, listening to the teachings of the abbot, chanting the Ullambana Sutra, and especially the ritual of pinning roses on their chests – expressing the sacred and noble feelings of each person towards their parents.

Following the Vu Lan festival, monks, representatives from various levels, and Buddhist followers held a groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the main hall of Nguu Tu Pagoda and a ceremony for pouring molten bronze to cast a statue of Bodhisattva.

Huy Thu