Vice Chairman of Tay Ninh provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee (VFF) Hồ Đức Hải led on April 24 a delegation visiting to several Buddhist dignitaries in the province on occasion of the Buddha’s Birthday Festival 2020 (B.E. 2564).
The delegation visited Most Venerable Thích Niệm Thới, Member of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS)’s Executive Council cum Chairman of the VBS’s Executive Committee in the province, Most Venerable Thích Huệ Tâm, Senior Venerable Thích Thiện Thức and Superior Nun Thích Nữ Châu Liên, deputy heads of the provincial VBS executive committee, and Senior Venerable Thích Minh Đăng, head of the provincial VBS committee’s information and communication board.
While extending happy celebrations of the 2564th anniversary of the Buddha’s Birthday to the VBS chapter and all Buddhists in the province, Vice Chairman Hồ Đức Hải highlighted practical contributions by local Buddhists to socio-economic development, as well as for the Covid-19 prevention and control in the locality over the past weeks.
As reported, local Buddhists have presented cash, food, health equipments, etc valued at over 1.17 billion VND to the Covid-19 fighting work in the province.
This year, due to the nCov pandemic, the Buddha’s Birthday Festival will be held internally at monasteries without large gatherings, parades, art shows and other activities of attraction as in previous years.
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