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

The opening ceremony of the Tay Yen Tu Spring Festival and the Culture - Tourism Week 2023 of Bac Giang province on February 2.

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

The recognition will help promote tourism as well as economic, 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 Luc Ngan districts from now to February 6.

Notably, a procession of the set of woodblocks carved with the poem “Cu tran lac dao phu” took place on February 2, bringing the set from Vinh Nghiem Pagoda in Yen Dung district to Thuong Pagoda in the Tay Yen Tu complex.

The central and provincial leaders open seal at the festival.

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

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

Tay Yen Tu Spring Festival 2023 - a boost for tourism development

(BGO) - After a three-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 epidemic, the Tay (Western) Yen Tu Spring Festival will be held in the first days of the Lunar New Year (Tet) 2023. To ensure a solemn and safe festival, preparation work is being urgently implemented by relevant units and Son Dong district of Bac Giang province.

Tay Yen Tu spiritual ecotourism complex beautifies to welcome visitor on spring

(BGO) – To prepare for Spring Festival and opening ceremony of Bac Giang Culture – Tourism Week in 2023, since early December 2022, the management board of Tay Yen Tu spiritual ecotourism complex in Son Dong district (Bac Giang province) has beautified and restored the landscapes.

Bac Giang organizes groundbreaking ceremony to build Tay Yen Tu bell tower building

(BGO) - The Construction Managing Board of Tay Yen Tu spiritual cultural area in Son Dong district, Bac Giang province on May 15 held a groundbreaking ceremony to build the Tay Yen Tu bell tower building at Tay Yen Tu spiritual and ecological tourism complex.

Bac Giang organizes seminar on developing tourism in Tay Yen Tu region

(BGO) - On the afternoon of May 11, the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism organized a workshop to develop typical tourism products in the "Tay Yen Tu landscape site" and "Walking road of Truc Lam Yen Tu Zen sect founders".

Source: VNA