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Prayer for health, prayer for the elimination of illness

Also called: Cầu an cho người bệnh, Sám cầu tật bệnh tiêu trừ, Cầu tai qua nạn khỏi

  • Cầu an, giải hạn (prayers for peace, rites to ward off misfortune)

Culture and belief A record of custom.

Prayer text for Prayer for health, prayer for the elimination of illness1 texts, kept in Vietnamese, with an English summary.

By custom, when someone in the household is sick, the family asks the pagoda to chant sutras and chant repentance, praying for the sick person to be at peace; this is a prayer and repentance in the manner of the pagoda. The dataset records the words of repentance only as a customary rite, and does not record and does not replace medical treatment.

At a glance

When it is held
When someone in the household is sick; during the cầu an (prayer for peace and safety) service at the pagoda
For whom
Phật A Di Đà (Amitabha Buddha), Phật Dược Sư (Medicine Buddha), Bồ Tát Quán Thế Âm (Bodhisattva Guanyin)

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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