Title:
THE CURRENT ISSUE OF PRACTICING TRUC LAM YEN TU BUDDHIST RITUALS

Authors:
MSc. Tran Thi Nhan, Vietnam

Abstract:
Buddhism is one of the worlds’ largest religions. It serves as the path and the truth to let people achieve enlightenment and escape the cycle of sufferings in life. Buddha is the master of enlightenment who helps people on the path towards the state of complete enlightenment (nirvana) and truths. Given that, core values of Buddhism are the practice to reach enlightenment and escape the suffering cycle. Buddhist rituals are the way to facilitate the practice and bring sentient beings closer to the religion. The meaning of Buddhist rituals is extremely broad, including behaviors, attitude, belief, culture, and chanting etiquette. It can be seen that Buddhism in general and Truc Lam Buddhism in particular always have distinctive ways of executing rituals. It is a must to search and contemplate to understand deep hidden levels of meanings.