Celebrate Buddha's birthday at Ba Den mountain

Tay Ninh Sun World Ba Den Mountain organizes a series of cultural and artistic programs on June 3-4, accompanying the festival activities at the Ba Den Mountain pagoda system.

The Buddha's Birthday celebration, also known as Vesak, is held annually in the fourth lunar month to commemorate the birth of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha. This is a significant event for Buddhists and is celebrated with numerous activities. This year, a series of cultural and artistic programs will be held on the mountaintop to celebrate the Buddha's Birthday at the temples on Ba Mountain.

According to the organizers, on the evenings of June 3rd and 4th (corresponding to the 16th and 17th of the fourth lunar month), visitors and Buddhists to Ba Mountain will participate in a lantern parade at the square at the foot of the statue of the Goddess of Mercy on Tay Bo Da Son Mountain. This activity commemorates and honors the Buddha and expresses wishes and prayers for good fortune and peace.

2,000 wooden lanterns were specially made by Sun World Ba Den Mountain so that Buddhists and tourists can assemble the lanterns themselves, write prayers, and perform the ritual of offering and releasing the lanterns into water dishes at the foot of the Buddha statue of Tay Bo Da Son.

Lantern releasing ceremony at Ba Den Mountain. Photo: Sun Group

Thousands of flower lanterns will light up the water dishes, illuminating the gilded Heart Sutra pillar with its base rising from the underground Dharma lecture area to the middle of the largest water dish at the center of the square area on top of Ba Mountain.

Next is the art program with the theme "Thousands of millions of halos", with folk dances such as lantern dance, flower offering dance... In addition, there are many dance and singing performances with songs imbued with Buddhist spirit performed by artists from Ho Chi Minh City.

Ba Den Mountain complex is decorated with 3,500 LED lights. Photo: Sun Group

In addition to participating in activities, tourists and Buddhists can also admire the complex of spiritual structures on Ba Den Mountain under an artistic lighting system, the first of its kind in Vietnam. 3,500 LED lights and more than 480 recessed floor lights will create a unique light show.

To serve the program, the cable car ticket price for Sun World Ba Den Mountain to the top of the mountain in the evening is now only 200,000 VND for adults and 100,000 VND for children.

Mount Ba Den is one of the spiritual symbols of Southern Vietnam, associated with the legend of Linh Son Thanh Mau Bodhisattva. At the summit is a magnificent complex of spiritual structures, including the tallest bronze statue of the Goddess of Mercy in Asia and a four-story Buddhist exhibition at its base. Here, visitors can explore the world of Buddhism through cutting-edge technologies such as 3D video mapping, holograms, and simulated versions of classic Buddhist works from Vietnam and around the world.

Image of releasing flower lanterns at the top of Ba Den Mountain during the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva Festival. Photo: Sun Group

Every year, millions of tourists come to Ba Den Mountain to worship and make pilgrimages. Many cultural and religious events held at Ba Den Mountain also attract Buddhists and tourists such as the Ba Mountain Spring Festival in early spring, the birthday of Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, Ba Den Mountain Festival...

Yen Chi

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