Văn cúng: Vietnamese prayer texts
435 prayer texts for 150 rites, kept word for word in Vietnamese as handed down, each with a summary in English, the offerings and the steps.
Culture and belief A record of custom.
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Everyday household rites
Ancestors and death anniversaries
First and fifteenth of the lunar month
Lunar New Year (Tết)
Festivals through the year
Household deities
House and land
Life-cycle rites
Funeral and mourning rites
Cầu an, giải hạn (prayers for peace, rites to ward off misfortune)
Pagodas, communal houses, temples and shrines
Less common rites
Ancestors and death anniversaries
First and fifteenth of the lunar month
Lunar New Year (Tết)
Festivals through the year
Household deities
House and land
Life-cycle rites
Funeral and mourning rites
Cầu an, giải hạn (prayers for peace, rites to ward off misfortune)
Pagodas, communal houses, temples and shrines
Offerings to wandering spirits
Regional and fishing-community rites
Rites of ethnic communities
Village farming rites
Open data
The rites, prayer texts and procedures in this section are released as three open datasets, downloadable as CSV.
- Types of Vietnamese offering rites
- Vietnamese offering prayers (văn cúng)
- Vietnamese offering procedures
Licensed CC BY 4.0: free to reuse, commercially too, with credit to Nhật Nguyệt (nhatnguyet.org) and the DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23009396. All open datasets
