On the morning of July 27th, at Long Son Pagoda, the Executive Board of the Khanh Hoa provincial Vietnam Buddhist Sangha held the 7th Congress of Khanh Hoa provincial Vietnam Buddhist Sangha, term 2022 - 2027. Mr. Nguyen Khac Toan - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Dinh Van Thieu - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and a large number of monks, nuns and Buddhists attended.
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Photo: Mr. Nguyen Khac Toan - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council (on the left) presents flowers to congratulate the 7th Congress of Khanh Hoa provincial Vietnam Buddhist Sangha.
The Congress elected the Executive Board of Khanh Hoa provincial Vietnam Buddhist Sangha for the term 2022 - 2027 with 63 members; elected the Proving Board with 6 members, the Standing Board with 23 members. Superior Buddhist Monk Thich Minh Thong assumes the position of Head of the Executive Board of the provincial Vietnam Buddhist Sangha.
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Photo: Leaders of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (on the right, first row) give gifts to congratulate the 7th Congress of the Khanh Hoa provincial Vietnam Buddhist Sangha.
Speaking at the congress, Mr. Dinh Van Thieu highly appreciated the results of activities of provincial Vietnam Buddhist Sangha in the past term, which have contributed to the construction and socio-economic development of the locality. Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also suggested that in the coming time, the Executive Board of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha of the province continue to guide monks, nuns and Buddhists in purely religious activities, complying with the law, and living a "good life - beautiful religion" in the direction of practicing the religion of "connecting with the dharma - nationalism - socialism", not allowing extremist elements to incite to cause division in the great unity bloc of the whole nation, not doing superstitious activities; actively respond to patriotic emulation movements launched by the locality and activities for socio-economic development, maintaining security and defense...
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Photo: The Executive Board of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha of the province for the term 2022 - 2027 presented themselves before the congress.
The congress also focused on evaluating Buddhist work for the 2017 - 2022 term in the province. Accordingly, in the past 5 years, the Executive Board of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha in the province has paid attention to guiding and creating conditions for monasteries, legalizing worship facilities; Buddhist activities are maintained stably, meeting the religious and spiritual needs of local Buddhists. Besides, the Board of Directors also did a good job of social and charity work with an amount of nearly 188.3 billion VND, of which more than 203 million VND were supported for the prevention and control of the Covid-19 epidemic; strengthen propaganda and mobilization of monks, nuns and Buddhists to comply with the provisions of law; actively participate in the movements of building new rural areas and civilized cities; participate in building the government, the front and socio-political organizations; environmental protection, security and order protection; building a cultural and ethical lifestyle in the village, hamlet...
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Photo: Leaders of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (in the middle) awarded certificates of merit to the collectives.
On this occasion, the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha presented certificates of merit to 14 groups and 16 individuals. The Vietnamese Buddhist Sangha in the province awarded certificates of merit to 7 groups.
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* Up to the present, the province has 398 pagodas recognized by the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha with 1,500 monks and nuns; The number of believers accounts for two thirds of the population in the province.
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