Prayer text for offering to bà Tổ Cô, number 1

Cúng Bà Cô Tổ, Ông Mãnh (offering to the ancestral young woman and young man of the family line). On the first and fifteenth days of the lunar month, on the death anniversary of Bà Cô, on the first day of the year; if the date of death is unknown, the family line's ancestor death anniversary is used

  • Used across Vietnam
  • Folk practice

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What this prayer says

Prayer text for offering to the Bà Tổ Cô of the family line, recited for the whole ceremony, paying homage to the Buddhas and the ancestors together with the Bà Tổ Cô, presenting offerings of incense and flowers, and asking for protection so that the descendants may be well and prosperous, with misfortune and calamity dispelled.

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Sources

  • Văn khấn cúng bà Tổ Cô (hoatieu.vn)

Part of the open dataset Vietnamese offering prayers (văn cúng), licensed CC BY 4.0.

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