Thousands join lantern floating ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City for Vesak Day
Vietnam News 20:35 20/05/2024The lantern floating ceremony takes place annually as part of Vesak Day to pray for peace and prosperity for Vietnam and its people
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
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
10,000 Buddhists attend mass prayer during UN Day of Vesak 2019 in Vietnam
Travel 10:53 14/05/2019More than 40,000 lanterns shaped like lotus flowers illuminated the night during the celebrations
UN Day of Vesak 2019 kicks off in northern Vietnam
Vietnam News 11:02 13/05/2019The 16th UN Day of Vesak runs from May 12 to 14, attended by over 20,000 Vietnamese and 1,650 international delegates
Buddhist statues at Hanoi pagoda vandalized en masse
Travel 10:17 05/04/2019Sixteen of the 18 Arhat statues on display in the pagoda’s garden were partially destroyed
$8.6mn complex for Buddhist events to open in northern Vietnam
Vietnam News 16:54 03/12/2018The complex is originally dedicated to worshipping a respected Vietnamese king who followed Buddhism
Buddhist statue made of flowers in Da Lat recognized as world’s biggest
Vietnam News 14:09 18/12/2017The World Records Union has officially certified the statue as the world’s biggest Buddhist sculpture made of flowers
Recovering Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh seeks rest in Vietnam
Vietnam News 10:39 30/08/2017The Buddhist monk suffered a brain haemorrhage in 2014
Vietnamese people are friendly yet hurried: US professor
In-Depth 14:57 06/08/2014An American history professor, who is also a devout Buddhist, is impressed by the unique Vietnamese culture, Buddhism and amiable Vietnamese people, whom she also finds to be always in a hurry
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
Art exhibition held in Vietnam to celebrate UN Day of Vesak
Travel 15:48 02/05/2014An art exhibition for charitable purposes will last until May 9 at the showroom of Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Association to celebrate the United Nations (UN) Day of Vesak 2014
