The Ceremony of Transformation to Ancestor marks the end of the International Plum Village Community’s two-year mourning period, known as Đại Tường in Vietnamese (大祥 in Chinese). And it recognizes Thay as the fifth patriarch of Từ Hiếu Temple – his root temple – and the founder of the Plum Village Sangha.
It will be only in Vietnamese(in low resolution), but we will upload the full ceremony video(in high resolution) with English voice over to the Plum Village YouTube channel on the 30th of January.