Ho Chi Minh City pagodas, streets festooned with colorful lanterns, flags in preparation for Buddha’s Birthday
Vietnam News 10:16 19/05/2024Buddha’s Birthday is an important annual Buddhist event
Buddhists congregate at Ho Chi Minh City pagodas to mark Buddha’s Birthday
Vietnam News 11:28 16/05/2022Worshippers, monks, and nuns across Ho Chi Minh City gathered at local pagodas on Sunday to pray for peace and safety
Vietnamese Buddhists solemnly observe Buddha’s Birthday
Travel 17:58 06/05/2020This year’s ceremonies were very different from previous ones because of the COVID-19 pandemic
Lockdown lifted on Buddha bar, Saigon’s COVID-19 epicenter
Vietnam News 14:26 24/04/2020The bar can be reopened when the city allows
Vietnam province starts work on 81-meter tall Buddha statue on mountain
Travel 13:05 06/03/2015Work started Thursday on the construction of a towering Buddha statue at a signature pilgrimage hot spot in a southern Vietnamese province
Vietnam city celebrates UN Day of Vesak 2014 (photos)
Travel 18:03 18/05/2014The UN Day of Vesak 2014 was officially launched on Tuesday at Quoc Tu Pagoda in District 10 in Ho Chi City
Activities held across Vietnam to commemorate UN Day of Vesak
Travel 18:01 08/05/2014A host of alluring Buddhist-themed activities is going on around the country to commemorate the United Nations (UN) Day of Vesak 2014 in Vietnam, which kicked off on Wednesday
Tay Thien festival ongoing in northern province (photos)
Travel 09:09 17/03/2014The Tay Thien festival, rich in Indian Buddhist cultural elements, is running in the northern province of Vinh Phuc until the afternoon of March 17
Lighted lotus lanterns celebrate Buddha’s birth, canal’s revival
Travel 12:10 18/05/2013Seven big lotus-shaped lanterns were lighted up on May 17 for the first time on a section of the Nhieu Loc canal, the recently revived canal, to mark the Buddha’s 2557th birthday.
Activities held to mark Buddha’s birth, monks’ uprising
Travel 11:46 14/05/2013A weeklong series of Buddhist-themed art programs will take place in HCMC from May 17 to 24 to commemorate the Buddha’s birthday and the 50th anniversary of local monks’ campaigning for religious liberty in 1963.
