Record book recognizes more Vietnamese Buddhist records

      The Vietnam Guinness Book Centre (Vietbooks) and the Giac Ngo (Enlightenment) newspaper in Ho Chi Minh City announced a list of 14 more Vietnamese Buddhist records on May 24.
Noteworthy is a 1.7m-high four-arm Buddha statue created between the 2nd and 6th centuries, which was found by local people in Oc Eo town in the Mekong delta province of An Giang in 1913, and is now displayed at Linh Son pagoda.
Another record is a table lamp with a sand painting of Cundi Bohdisattva. The lamp, made by the My Viet Ltd. Co, measures 101cm in height and 22.5 kg in weight. The painting was made of white sand from the southcentral province of Khanh Hoa, and naturally-coloured sand from the southern province of Binh Thuan.
Some records have been newly created such as the largest-scale Dharma propagation trip of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha to six countries with the aim of linking up the overseas Vietnamese Buddhist followers to the homeland, and the largest requiem on an island, which took place on Con Dao island last April.
Vu Ngoc Toan, member of the Cultural Department under the Ho Chi Minh City Buddhist Sangha, was recognized as the composer of most of the Buddhist songs in Vietnam - 639 songs.