Lễ Trần Hưng Đạo văn (sớ Hán Việt)
Lễ đền Bà Chúa Kho, đền thờ Đức Thánh Trần, đền Trình chùa Hương. Early spring and the festival occasions of each place; the chùa Hương festival from the first lunar month to the third lunar month
- Used across Vietnam
- Folk practice
- Petition (sớ)
- Sino-Vietnamese reading
Culture and belief A record of custom.
What this prayer says
A Hán-Việt sớ (petition) offered in the ceremony to Trần Hưng Đạo, in which the tín chủ (the person making the offering) and the whole family ask the Đại Vương to giải hạn (rite to ward off misfortune) and avert disasters, to prolong life and strength, to keep the household well, to remove calamities, to pray for the family to be at peace and for dealings in the village to be harmonious; it records the lunar day, month and year and ends with Cẩn sớ.
The prayer below is kept in Vietnamese, the language it is read aloud in during the rite.
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Showing the version used across Vietnam.
How it differs from the common version
A Sino-Vietnamese sớ read by sound, opening with "Phục dĩ", mentioning "Tức Mặc cố hương", listing four rows of spirit tablets ("vị tiền"), ending with "Cẩn sớ" and the line "Thiên vận ... niên ... nguyệt ... nhật, Tín chủ thành tâm cụ tấu"; no invocation of the Buddha.
The common version: Prayer text for the offering rite to Đức Thánh Trần
Offerings and how the rite is done
Other texts for Lễ đền Bà Chúa Kho, đền thờ Đức Thánh Trần, đền Trình chùa Hương
- Mother Goddess worship (Tứ Phủ)Prayer text at đền Bà Chúa Kho
- Mother Goddess worship (Tứ Phủ)Prayer text at đền Bà Chúa Kho (hoatieu.vn version, with the bow to the nine directions of Heaven)
- Mother Goddess worship (Tứ Phủ)Traditional prayer text to Bà Chúa Kho (hoatieu.vn version)
- Mother Goddess worship (Tứ Phủ)Prayer text at Đền Bà Chúa Kho (folk prayer, ending with Cẩn tấu)
- Folk practicePrayer text for the offering rite to Đức Thánh Trần
- Folk practicePrayer text to Đức Thánh Trần (common version, ending with Cẩn tấu)
- Red River Delta, chùa Hương, huyện Mỹ Đức, Hà NộiPrayer text for the đền Trình shrine at chùa Hương
The wording is kept exactly as published by the source. The dotted italic words are blanks for you to fill in.
Sources
- Những nghi lễ chính tại đền, miếu, phủ (vankhan.vn)
Part of the open dataset Vietnamese offering prayers (văn cúng), licensed CC BY 4.0.
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