Prayer text for the động thổ offering, levelling the land and digging the foundation, in the case of empty land (without chanting sutras)

Cúng động thổ (groundbreaking). Before digging the foundation to build a house, a date and hour are usually chosen

  • Used across Vietnam
  • Buddhist

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

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(Tụng. Mõ, chuông)

(Chủ sám)

(Hạ lễ)

How it differs from the common version

Không kính lạy Hoàng Thiên Hậu Thổ, Thái Tuế, Thành hoàng; thỉnh "các hương linh nương gá trên cây dưới đất" và báo trước bảy ngày để họ dời đi; có phát tâm công đức, chân ngôn, hồi hướng.

The common version: Prayer text for the động thổ (groundbreaking) offering

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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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