Phnom Penh: The Phnom Penh Administration has instructed the authorities of all 14 districts to pay attention to maintaining security, safety, public order, and environmental hygiene in the localities and temples that celebrate the Visakha Bucha festival.
According to the instructions of the Phnom Penh Administration, Visakha Bucha is one of the major festivals in Buddhism that Buddhists, both clergy and laity around the world, always celebrate every year without fail. It is held to commemorate the three great moments in which the Buddha was born from the womb of his mother, attained enlightenment, attained enlightenment, and passed away. Every year, Cambodian Buddhists celebrate this festival in all temples across the country. Considering it to be the most noble and noble merit-making.
This year, Visakha Bucha will be held for 2 days, on Friday, 15th Kert and Saturday, 1st Rouch, Visakha month, year of the Monkey, B.E. 2570, corresponding to May 1-2, 2026, at the premises of the Maha Sakyamuni Chedi, Phnom Rojaktat (Udung), Ponhea Leu District, Kandal Province.
According to the instruction plan No. 03/2026 of the National Committee for Organizing National and International Festivals, dated Monday, 7th Kert, month of the Phalkun, year of the Monkey, B.E. 2569, corresponding to February 23, 2026, in order to ensure that this ceremony is held in a grand and auspicious manner, in response to the meaning of the above content, the Phnom Penh Administration Please make the following recommendations:
1- The 14 district administrations must:
- Instruct to decorate national flags, religious flags, royal flags, and hang banners with slogans at temples, public buildings, commercial buildings, markets, construction sites, companies, factories, enterprises, resorts, entertainment centers, and all citizens’ homes to celebrate this traditional religious festival with honor and dignity, in accordance with the Constitution of the Kingdom of Cambodia, which states that “Buddhism is the state religion.”
- Organize and organize an official Visakha Bucha festival at any temple in the locality
– Collaborate with the Phnom Penh Municipal Government to organize and organize a grand and solemn Visakha Bucha festival, and instruct all subordinate units to cooperate well. With the Buddhist monks of each temple and join in spreading the word to promote the important role of Buddhism and the good traditions of the nation, especially calling on all temples to pay attention to creating convenient conditions for monks who want to become monks or young people who are pure and want to educate their minds, keep the 5th, 8th, or 10th precepts for a short time on the day of Visakha Bucha by simply wearing appropriate clothes and obeying the prescribed precepts. - Pay attention to maintaining security, safety, public order, and environmental hygiene in the locality and temples that celebrate Visakha Bucha well.
- Inspire and disseminate by all means to the public, especially young people and young women, to understand more broadly about the content and participate in and adhere to the glorious religious tradition. of the nation.
2- The Phnom Penh Municipal Department of Cults and Religion shall instruct all temples to organize the Visakha Bucha festival in accordance with the good traditions of the nation and shall select a temple to officially celebrate the Visakha Bucha festival.
3- The Phnom Penh Municipal Department of Culture and Fine Arts shall cooperate with the Phnom Penh Municipal Department of Education, Youth and Sports and the Phnom Penh Municipal Department of Cults and Religion to assign students to recite the National Anthem, salute the national flag and the Seraphim Anthem, salute the Buddhist flag, and women to perform the smut during the counting of the bowls on the morning of May 1, 2026.
4- The Phnom Penh Municipal Department of Information shall assign radio channels and radio-television stations under its supervision to cooperate with private national radio-television stations to carry out creative news gathering activities, disseminate before, during, and after the festival the image of the arrangement and content of the festival in a wide and appropriate manner. The glorious national religious festival.
5- The Department of Health of the Phnom Penh Administration must prepare an emergency plan by preparing a team of doctors, medicines and ambulances. In particular, it must instruct the health service bases under its jurisdiction, such as hospitals, referral hospitals, health centers and health posts located along National Road No. 5 towards Phnom Penh Royal Palace, to have a team of doctors and ambulances on duty 24 hours a day.
6- The Phnom Penh Police Department and the Phnom Penh Military Police Headquarters must cooperate to protect security, safety, facilitate traffic and order during the festival, as well as to follow the route in the geography of Phnom Penh from the roundabout at the base of Chroy Changvar Bridge to the border of Kandal Province.
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