(VOVworld) – The Vietnam Buddhist Shangha on Sunday hosted a grand ceremony in Yen Tu relic site in Quang Ninh province to mark the 705th anniversary of the death of King Tran Nhan Tong, the founder of Truc Lam Zen school, which typifies Vietnamese Buddhism. The ceremony will last three days.
A statue of meditating Tran Nhan Tong will be inaugurated on December 3. The bronze statue is 9.9 m high and weighs 130 tons. Superior Monk Thich Thanh Quyet, Head of the Executive Committee of the Quang Ninh Buddhist Shangha, elaborates: “King Tran Nhan Tong moved here to lead a religious life and turned this place into a sacred Buddhist land. So we build a statue of him for all Vietnamese from both in and outside the country to remember his great contributions to national construction and Buddhist development”.