The Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) Executive Council held a conference to review its Buddhist affairs on April 19 in Hoi An pagoda in Binh Duong province in five Southeastern provinces.
Attending the meeting were Most Venerable Chairman of the VBS Legal Committee Thích Thiện Trí, Venerable Deputy Secretary cum Chief of the VBS’s Southern Office Thích Thiện Thống and members the VBS Executive Committees in five provinces of Ba Ria – Vung Tau, Binh Duong, Binh Phuoc, Dong Nai and Tay Ninh.
Deputy Director of the Southern Religious Affairs Department under the Government Committee for Religious Affairs Trà Quang Thanh, Chairman of Binh Duong provincial Committee for Religious Affairs Trần Đức Thịnh and leaders of the Religious Committees of the five provinces also joint the event
At the conference, representatives from the provincial-level VBS Executive Committees discussed the organization and personnel of the provincial and district –level Buddhist Congress, transfer of monks and nuns to new operating places and addressed issues including the conversion of family houses into Buddhist worshipping facilities and the management of the Church’s property.
Speaking at the conference, Deputy Director Trà Quang Thanh reminded the VBS Executive Committees to organize the Buddha Birthday festival and the Summer Retreat B.E. 2560 in a way that does not affect the election of the National Assembly’s deputies and members of People’s Councils at all levels for the period 2016-2021.
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