VietNamNet Bridge – Whenever a new year comes, Vietnamese go to pagodas to wish for a lucky year. Pagodas are hallowed places, but one can see many offensive things there.


Votive papers are everywhere.





It is estimated that Vietnamese burn millions of USD worth of votive papers annually.






Someone even offers raw pork, diarrhea medicine and balm at a temple.


















Small changes.











Pilgrims stuff small changes around Buddha statues, chinks and anywhere that
they can to wish for good fortune.






Even the roof is covered by small changes.






The One-pillar Pagoda.





Gambling also appears at temples.













Fortune-telling service.






Wild animal meat is sold at restaurants around temples, for example Yen Tu, Huong pagoda.






At the Perfume pagoda.





Pilgrims discharge waste rampantly.





Begging is also a problem at temples.





Burning incenses everywhere.

Hoang Nguyen