The Party Committee, People's Council, People’s Committee and Fatherland Front Committee of Dong Nai province visit the provincial Buddhist Association and express congratulations
Posted Date: 20/07/2011
On the afternoon of May 6, the representatives of the Party Committee, People’s Council, People's Committee and Fatherland Front Committee of Dong Nai province led by Ms Bui Ngoc Thanh – Member of the provincial Standing Party Committee and Head of the Commission for People Mobilization Work – visited the executive board of the provincial Buddhist Association and expressed congratulations on the occasion of the Buddha’s 2553rd birthday, 2009.
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Ms Bui
Ngoc Thanh offers gifts to the leadership of the provincial Buddhist
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Ms Bui Ngoc
Thanh asked after the Buddhist monks and nuns in the executive board of the
provincial Buddhist Association. She also sent her congratulations to all the
Buddhist monks, nuns and followers and wished them a happy, peaceful and secure
Buddha’s birthday.
Venerable
Thich Minh Chanh – Head of the provincial Buddhist Association – thanked the
provincial leadership for the provincial departments, sectors, unions’ care and
support and for facilitating the Buddhists’ religious activities in the
province. Simultaneously, she asserted that the provincial Buddhist Association
would collaborate closely with the provincial leadership of all levels in making
Dong Nai more beautiful, civilized and richer.
As planned,
the delegation of the Buddhist monks, nuns and followers of the province is
visiting the provincial heroes cemetery, celebrating a mass for the peace of the
heroic martyrs’ soul and praying for a peaceful country and people’s prosperity
on the morning of May 7. Later, the leadership of the provincial Buddhist
Association is celebrating the Buddha’s 2553rd birthday at Long Thien temple (Buu
Hoa ward, Bien Hoa city) on May 9 which falls on April 15 in the lunar calendar.
Throughout the week in which Buddha’s 2553rd birthday is, Dong Nai Buddhist
Association is visiting and offering gifts to poor Buddhist families and the
families that make sacrifices for the country and Buddhism.
(Reported by Lien Huong,
Translated by Duy Minh)