Prayer text to Đức Thánh Trần (common version, ending with Cẩn tấu)
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
Culture and belief A record of custom.
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
No invocation of the Buddha, no mention of the date; it reveres Hưng Đạo đại vương, his consort, the four Vương tử, the two Vương cô, the four consorts, Phạm tôn thần; the requests are written as paired four-character lines; ends with "Cẩn tấu".
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 practiceLễ Trần Hưng Đạo văn (sớ Hán Việt)
- 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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