The ceremony to release hot-air balloons to launch the Maravijaya Buddha Image Tazaungdine Lighting Festival took place on a grand scale in the Maravijaya Buddha Park in Dakhinathiri Township, Union Territory Nay Pyi Taw on the evening of 25 November.
Present at the ceremony were the Chairman of the State Administration Council Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and wife Daw Kyu Kyu Hla, the SAC Secretary, the SAC Joint Secretary and wife, SAC members and wives, Union level persons, Union Ministers and wives, the Nay Pyi Taw Council chairman, senior military officers and wives, the Nay Pyi Taw Command commander and officials, and the people including monks and nuns came to watch the ceremony.
Once the Senior General and wife cut the ribbon to open the ceremony to release hot-air balloons to launch the Maravijaya Buddha Image Tazaungdine Lighting Festival, 450 small hot-air balloons were released, and Fireworks were set off.
Afterwards, the Senior General and wife paid obeisance to the Maravijaya Buddha Image and offered flowers, water and candle-lights. They then walked around on the platform and offered 3,600 oil lamps together with the pilgrims. The Senior General and wife walked around on the platform, viewed stone tablet pagodas and cordially greeted the people who came to the Maravijaya Buddha Image Tazaungdine Lighting Festival.
Source: Myawady Daily Newspaper (26-11-2023)
- The ceremony to release hot-air balloons to launch the Maravijaya Buddha Image Tazaungdine Lighting Festival took place on a grand scale in the Maravijaya Buddha Park in Dakhinathiri Township, Union Territory Nay Pyi Taw and the Chairman of the State Administration Council Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and wife Daw Kyu Kyu Hla opened the ceremony by cutting the ribbon.