Prayer text for the lễ Chúc Thực (offering rice while the coffin is still kept at home)

Lễ Chúc thực (the rite of offering rice to the newly deceased). Every day, two times, morning and evening, from when the coffin is still at home until the 100th-day ceremony (at pagodas: until 49 days)

  • Used across Vietnam
  • Folk practice

Culture and belief A record of custom.

What this prayer says

Prayer text for the Chúc Thực ceremony, offering rice to the newly deceased while the coffin is still kept at home; the eldest son or eldest grandson represents the family in bowing to Heaven, the Buddha, Thành hoàng (village tutelary deity), Táo quân (Kitchen Gods) and ancestors, presenting the deceased's spirit tablet and praying for the spirit to protect the descendants and be liberated.

The prayer below is kept in Vietnamese, the language it is read aloud in during the rite.

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Sources

  • Văn khấn trong lễ tang (vankhan.vn)
  • Văn khấn Lễ Chúc Thực trong tang lễ (tuvi.vn)

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

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