Present at the ceremony taking place at Sung An pagoda located in Phan Rang – Thap Cham city’s Phu Ha included Most Venerable Member of the VBS’s Executive Council cum Chairman of the VBS’s executive committee in Ninh Thuan Thích Hạnh Thể, 25 members of the provincial VBS’s executive committee, and representatives from the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee in the province and the provincial religious committee.

During the ceremony, Most Venerable Thích Hạnh Thể conveyed Vesak messages of Most Venerable Supreme Patriarch of the VBS Thích Phổ Tuệ, and Senior Venerable Vice Chairman of the VBS’s executive committee in the province Thích Minh Tánh read the congratulatory letterof Most Venerable President of the VBS’s executive council Thích Thiện Nhơn sent to monks, nuns, and lay Buddhists on occasion of the Buddha Birthday 2565.

Due to a new and complicated context of the Covid-19 pandemic, the executive committee of the VBS chapter in the province has suspended religious gatherings of large participants and strictly observed preventive measures against the pandemic advisors by the Prime Minister and local authorities.

However, the ceremony this year solemnly featured traditional Buddhist rites and prayer for peace and prosperity.