The eighth congress of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) will take place in Hanoi on November 21-22, with 1,250 delegates set to attend, heard a press briefing on November 13.
The VBS hosted the 2014 United Nations Day of Vesak (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - The eighth congress ofthe Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) will take place in Hanoi on November 21-22, with1,250 delegates set to attend, heard a press briefing on November 13.
The VBS will review its work during 2015-2017, discusstasks for 2017-2022, and ratify its revised sixth charter during the congress.
Participants will also select members of the VBS PatronageCouncil and Executive Council for the 2017-2022 tenure.
In the next tenure, the VBS has nine tasks, witha focus on promoting the solidarity and development of the VBS in internationalintegration, monks and nuns training, as well as cultural exchanges andpeople-to-people diplomacy.
Most Venerable Thich Duc Thien, General Secretaryof the VBS Executive Council highlighted the achievements the VBS has made overthe past year, saying that its chapters have been established in all 63localities nationwide.
The VBS hosted the 2014 UnitedNations Day of Vesak. Pagodas have been built on Truong Sa (Spratly)Archipelago and in border areas as spiritual border markers safeguarding thenation’s territorial sovereignty, he said.
Associations of Vietnamese Buddhists have been formed in Japan,the Republic of Korea, and Angola while those in Laos and Cambodia have beenconsolidated.
The VBS has mobilised more than six trillion VND (264 million USD)for charity and social work, according to Thien.-VNA
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The strategic product, managed and operated by the Vietnam News Agency Digital Media Centre (VNA Media), is an official channel for popularising the Party and State’s information and documents as well as delivering mainstream and trustworthy news to both domestic and international audiences through various kinds of multimedia formats.
Since President Ho Chi Minh founded Thanh Nien (Young People) newspaper in 1925, the Vietnamese revolutionary press has become the voice of the people. During the resistance war against the colonialists, journalists took great personal risks to inspire patriotism and the will of rising up against foreign invaders.
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The VBS hosted the 2014 United Nations Day of Vesak (Source: VNA) 
