Preparation for the Colored Lantern Celebration of Bodhisattva Siddhartha’s Enlightenment in Cambodia.

Cambodia was one of the countries that the people had the strongest belief in the religions.

From the beginning, the culture in this country was fairly influential from Hinduism, from which Hinduism was formed a separate and special culture of belief in the local residents. With the famous architectural monument in the world such as the Angkor population, Golden pagoda, Silver pagoda, ect., and especially the traditional figure Apsara which was filled with a mass of colour and flavour of religion.

 

Although the Buddhism was imported to this country from the early age, where the people had the good nature, then it quickly became national religion; with more than 90 percent of Cambodians were Buddhists, they were limitted in learning and understanding the Buddha's teachings, especially in remote places

 

In this spirit, in order to help the population to undestand more clearly about the ceremony belong to Buddhism in a year, especially the enlightened day of Bodhisattva Siddhartha, on the evening of January 17th, 2016 (Lunar December 08th, Goat year) the coloured lantern night was solemnly organized to celebrate Bodhisattva Siddhartha attaining enlightenment at the Hoang Phap pagoda in Cambodia. The preparation was almost completed, from designing the reviewing stand, floral curtains, in which all things had the deeply cultural style of Cambodians.

The preparation was very promising to have the sparkling and monumental coloured lanterns night to everybody.

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