Begining Summer Retreat at Tay Khanh Pagoda

On June 29th, 2019 (lunar May 27th, the year of the Pig), Tay Khanh Pagoda (Cao Mai village, Quang Hung commune, Kien Xuong district, Thai Binh province) organized the 5th Summer Retreat for more than 400 attendees with the theme "Relax! You Have Arrived...”.

Summer is the time when young people can relax, play, have many activities of tourism, picnic after months at schooling. Temporarily restraining with those joys, the young people know to return to the pagoda to study Buddhism, accumulate good seeds, build a peaceful and happy life.

In the morning, participants went to the retreat to do the enrolling process. After completing registration, in the afternoon, all of them were instructed ethic manner by the monks in the Organization Board, arranging accommodation places, dividing into the groups.

Next, Junior Ven. Thich Tam Kinh, the abbot of Tay Khanh Pagoda, the Head of the Organizing Board had a few words of encouragement for the spirit of cultivating and studying for young people. After that, he shared the internal rules of the retreat and advised attendees to study diligently, should cherished their meaning time in this retreat. 

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