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Bac Giang opens Tay Yen Tu Spring Festival, Culture - Tourism Week

The Tay Yen Tu (West Yen Tu) Spring Festival and the Culture - Tourism Week 2023 of northern Bac Giang province opened with a ceremony held at the Tay Yen Tu spiritual and ecological tourism complex on February 2.
Bac Giang opens Tay Yen Tu Spring Festival, Culture - Tourism Week ảnh 1The opening ceremony of the Tay Yen Tu Spring Festival and the Culture - Tourism Week 2023 of Bac Giang province on February 2. (Photo: VNA)
Bac Giang (VNA) – The Tay Yen Tu (West Yen Tu)Spring Festival and the Culture - Tourism Week 2023 of northern Bac Giangprovince opened with a ceremony held at the Tay Yen Tu spiritual and ecologicaltourism complex on February 2.

Addressing the event, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’sCommittee Mai Son said the Tay Yen Tu tourism complex, located on the path ofpropagating the Dharma of the founders of the Truc Lam Yen Tu Buddhist sect,holds a special position for developing cultural, spiritual, ecological, andrelaxation tourism.

Given this, Bac Giang is developing a tourism space here andworking with nearby Quang Ninh and Hai Duong provinces to compile a dossierseeking UNESCO recognition of the Yen Tu - Vinh Nghiem - Con Son, Kiep Baclandscape complex as world heritage.

The recognition will help promote tourism as well aseconomic, cultural, and social development in the region, the official noted.

The Tay Yen Tu Spring Festival and the Bac Giang Culture -Tourism Week feature 15 main activities and a wide range of cultural, sport,and tourism events, which will be held in Son Dong, Yen Dung, Luc Nam, and LucNgan districts from now to February 6.

Bac Giang opens Tay Yen Tu Spring Festival, Culture - Tourism Week ảnh 2The woodblocks on the poem“Cu tran lac dao phu” are handed over for the procession from Vinh Nghiem Pagoda to the Tay Yen Tu complex. (Photo: VNA)
Notably, a procession of the set of woodblocks carved with thepoem “Cu tran lac dao phu” took place on February 2, bringing the set from VinhNghiem Pagoda in Yen Dung district to Thuong Pagoda in the Tay Yen Tu complex.

The woodblocks on “Cu tran lac dao phu”, written in the Nom and Han (Chinese) scripts, are among the Buddhistwoodblocks kept at the Vinh Nghiem Pagoda that were listed as documentary heritagein the Memory of the World Programme for the Asia-Pacific region.

The 70km-long procession aimed to honour the ideologicalvalues of the Truc Lam Yen Tu Buddhist sect and re-enact the sect founders’ pathof propagating the Dharma. It was recognised by the Vietnam RecordsOrganisation (VietKings) as the biggest of its kind held in Buddhist rituals inVietnam./.
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