(VOVworld) – Visiting pagodas during Tet (traditional Lunar New Year festival), an age-old custom of the Vietnamese people, is now being practiced by Vietnamese expats living in France.

Embassy staff visit Khuong Viet pagoda in France. (Photo: VOV)

Members of the Vietnamese Embassy and representative offices in France burned incense to pay tribute to President Ho Chi Minh and visited pagodas to pray for a great new year. Venerable Thich Tinh Quang of Khuong Viet pagoda wished them peace, health, and happiness.

At the Truc Lam zen monastery, they joined other Vietnamese expats in a ritual, asking for peace and luck. There Venerable Thich Phuoc Duong offered new year greetings to Buddhist followers at home and abroad: “I’d like to extend my best new year wishes to all Vietnamese Buddhist followers. May all of you be blessed with good health, peace, and success”.