[Nếu phát tâm công đức hồi hướng tại khóa lễ thì đọc: Chúng con xin phát tâm công đức về Tam Bảo, để hồi hướng phước cầu an cho gia đình và hồi hướng (cầu siêu) cho tất cả chư vị trong cõi tâm linh mà đã được thỉnh mời về khóa lễ này là {khac}]
Văn bạch (spoken petition) for the thank-offering at home after sang cát (bốc mộ) and moving the grave
Cải táng, bốc mộ (reburial, exhumation). After the three-year mourning period ends or a few more years; also done when the grave must be repaired or moved
- Used across Vietnam
- Buddhist
- Closing thanks and burning of votive paper
Culture and belief A record of custom.
What this prayer says
Prayer text for the thank-offering rite at home after sang cát (exhumation and reburial) and moving the grave, recited during the thank-offering and burning of votive paper. The person making the offering addresses the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and the Sangha of Noble Ones, invites the heavenly beings, spirits, and local earth deities to witness, offers incense, flowers, and food, and prays that the ancestors' spirits and the deceased may receive the offerings, hear the scriptures, and rely on the Three Jewels to cultivate.
The prayer below is kept in Vietnamese, the language it is read aloud in during the rite.
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How it differs from the common version
How this text differs from the original: the pagoda wording read before the altar at home after the lowering of the coffin addresses the Buddhas, reports that the work is done, offers food to the devas and spirits, and makes universal offering for the hương linh of ancestors; the other version gives thanks to the spirits of the cemetery and to the hương linh right at the grave.
The common version: Prayer text for the thank-offering after completing Cải Cát and repairing the grave
Offerings and how the rite is done
Offerings, steps and things to avoid for Cải táng, bốc mộ (reburial, exhumation)
Other texts for Cải táng, bốc mộ (reburial, exhumation)
- Folk practice, At the graveLễ Cải Cát (transferring the remains into a small urn, repairing the grave, moving the grave): prayer before the grave
- Folk practice, Address to the deitiesPrayer text to Long Mạch, Sơn Thần and Thổ Thần (before and after moving the grave)
- Folk practice, Address to the ancestorsPrayer text announcing to the ancestors before going to Cải Cát
- Folk practice, Address to the deitiesPrayer text to the spirits at the old grave before Cải Cát
- Folk practice, At the gravePrayer text to the hương linh (spirit of the deceased) when transferring the remains into a small urn and moving the grave
- Folk practice, Closing thanks and burning of votive paperPrayer text for the thank-offering after completing Cải Cát and repairing the grave
- Buddhist, At the graveVăn bạch (spoken petition) for the offering at the grave before sang cát (bốc mộ) and moving the grave
- Folk practice, Address to the deitiesPrayer text to deities at the grave (for tảo mộ, repairing the grave, bốc mộ)
Collected text. The dotted italic words are blanks for you to fill in.
Part of the open dataset Vietnamese offering prayers (văn cúng), licensed CC BY 4.0.
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