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

Work and trade

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

First and fifteenth of the lunar month

Funeral and mourning rites

Pagodas, communal houses, temples and shrines

Rites of ethnic communities

Open data

The rites, prayer texts and procedures in this section are released as three open datasets, downloadable as CSV.

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