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Offering to the altar of Đức Thánh Hiền at the pagoda

Also called: Văn khấn ban Đức Thánh Hiền, A Nan Đà tôn giả

  • Pagodas, communal houses, temples and shrines

Culture and belief A record of custom.

Prayer text for Offering to the altar of Đức Thánh Hiền at the pagoda2 texts, kept in Vietnamese, with an English summary.

In pagodas in the North, the altar of Đức Thánh Hiền usually faces the altar of Đức Ông.

At a glance

When it is held
When going to the pagoda to worship
For whom
Đức Thánh Hiền, that is, Đại Thánh khải giáo A Nan Đà tôn giả (the Venerable Ānanda, great sage who opens the teaching)

Each family and each region may do it differently.

Communities and regions

Part of the open datasets Types of Vietnamese offering rites, licensed CC BY 4.0.

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