The Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS)’s Chapter in Ho Chi Minh City held on November 6 the mid-term conference of its 9th tenure (2017-2022).
The event drew the presence of Buddhist dignitaries from the Central VBS’s Discernment Council and Executive Council, and members of the Executive Committee of the VBS chapter in Ho Chi Minh City.
Guests at the conference included Vice Chairman of municipal People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City Trần Hữu Phước and representatives from the Government Committee for Religious Affairs and the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee in the city.
The one-day conference reviewed Buddhist affairs of the municipal VBS in the first years of the 9th term, including Buddhist education, guidance and charities, and approved several key tasks for remaining years of the 2017-2022 tenure.
The VBS conference also reselected Most Venerable Thích Trí Quảng, Deputy Patriarch of the Central VBS, as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the VBS’s chapter in Ho Chi Minh City in the 2017-2022 term.
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