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Cầu sức khỏe, cầu tật bệnh tiêu trừ

  • Cầu an, giải hạn (prayers for peace, rites to ward off misfortune)
  • 1 prayer texts

Culture and belief A record of custom.

About this rite: when it is held and for whom

Also called: Cầu an cho người bệnh, Sám cầu tật bệnh tiêu trừ, Cầu tai qua nạn khỏi

By custom, when someone in the household is sick, the family asks the pagoda to chant sutras and chant repentance, praying for the sick person to be at peace; this is a prayer and repentance in the manner of the pagoda. The dataset records the words of repentance only as a customary rite, and does not record and does not replace medical treatment.

When
When someone in the household is sick; during the cầu an (prayer for peace and safety) service at the pagoda
For whom
Phật A Di Đà (Amitabha Buddha), Phật Dược Sư (Medicine Buddha), Bồ Tát Quán Thế Âm (Bodhisattva Guanyin)

Sám cầu tật bệnh tiêu trừ (Sám tán cầu an 4)

  • Southern Vietnam
  • Buddhist

What this prayer says

A prayer of repentance for peace and safety from the pagoda, bowing to Amitabha Buddha, Medicine Buddha and Bodhisattva Guanyin, asking them to have compassion and save the sick person. The sick person repents of evil deeds committed over many lives, vows to keep a vegetarian diet and practise, praying for illness to be removed and to be reborn in the Pure Land; it is recited in a cầu an (prayer for peace and safety) ceremony when someone in the household is ill.

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

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This text is the version from the South.

Collected text. The dotted italic words are blanks for you to fill in.

Part of the open dataset Types of Vietnamese offering rites, licensed CC BY 4.0.

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