Prayer text for the Tam Bảo altar (version from hoatieu.vn)

Going to the pagoda, making offerings to the Buddha at the Tam Bảo (Three Jewels) altar. On the fifteenth day and the first day of the lunar month, on Tết holidays, at the beginning of the year, and when there is an important matter

  • Used across Vietnam
  • Folk practice

Culture and belief A record of custom.

What this prayer says

Prayer text for the Tam Bảo hall, sincerely offering modest gifts and a petition to the Ten Directions' Ever-Present Tam Bảo, bowing to the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, noble Sangha, and Dharma protectors to pray for career, wealth, giải hạn (rite to ward off misfortune), and peace, and to ask for great pardon for the family.

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

This version differs from the original in that it does not have the sentence "Con lạy chín phương trời"; it opens with "Đệ tử con thành tâm kính lạy Mười phương chư Phật"; the date stands before the name of the tín chủ (the person making the offering); and it ends with "Dãi tấm lòng thành, cúi xin bái thỉnh. Cẩn nguyện" instead of the three recitation sentences.

The common version: Văn khấn (prayer text) for wealth, fortune, and peace at the Tam Bảo altar

Offerings and how the rite is done

Offerings, steps and things to avoid for Going to the pagoda, making offerings to the Buddha at the Tam Bảo (Three Jewels) altar

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Nhật Nguyệt articles on the rite, the custom and how to prepare.

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Sources

  • Bài khấn đi lễ chùa (hoatieu.vn)
  • Các bài văn khấn đi lễ chùa đầu năm (VOH, Đài Tiếng nói Nhân dân TP.HCM)
  • Bài cúng hằng ngày của Phật Giáo Hòa Hảo và cách cúng (hoatieu.vn)
  • Văn khấn tạ lễ cuối năm ở Đền, đình, chùa, miếu phủ (hoatieu.vn)

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