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Year-End Retreat, a year-end closing ceremony, giving lunar Tet gifts 2025 at Dong Cao pagoda
Update: 21/01/2025
Buddhists everywhere returned to Dong Cao Pagoda in Thanh Hoa province (belonging to the Hoang Phap’s Sect) to attend a Year-End Retreat, Closing ceremony, and giving gifts to local residents on Jan. 19th, 2025.
The Junior Abbot led the mass meditation walk in the morning; then, the mass chanted together the rite of six-sense repentance, Five precepts, then released creatures before the rite.
At 09:30 a.m, Junior Thich Tam Hung gave a Dharma talk to the mass with the topic "Four ways of reciting Buddha's name in the Pure-land Sect". He taught four methods of the reciting so that cultivators can choose the most suitable way depending on their capacity to achieve success, progress in their practice, have benefits in the present, sow good karma to be reborn in the Pure Land realm.
The Year-end ceremony officially was held in a pure and dignified atmosphere by the witness of Junior Thich Tam Hung and the mass’s attending.
After listening to a statement of reason, and introducing the program, all participants looked back on the affairs of the past year. On behalf of attending practitioners, Buddhist Lien Nhan had a detailed report summarizing the ashram affairs with the constructive ideas of the mass and the teachings of the Abbot.
Junior Thich Tam Hung awarded The Certificate of Buddhist Families to 3 families who have practiced and guided their relatives to practice together, support Three Jewels, awarded 03 Certificates of Merit to Buddhists practice diligently and gain excellent achievements in the Year of the Dragon 2024.
The Abbot held a year-end Dharma thanking ritual to express gratitude to the Triple Gem, the guardian angels, and the hundreds of families who have supported and helped the ashram to have enough conditions to practice.
Last, the monks gave 19 gifts (each worth more than 500,000 VND) to people in difficult fates to welcome the Year of the Snake (2025).