(Tụng. Mõ, chuông)
(Chủ sám)
(Hạ lễ)
Prayer text for the end-of-Tết offering (hóa vàng offering) (without sutra chanting)
Lễ hóa vàng (rite of burning votive paper). The 3rd day of the first lunar month for most households; in some places the 2nd, 4th, 5th or 7th day
- Used across Vietnam
- Buddhist
Culture and belief A record of custom.
What this prayer says
Prayer text for the end-of-Tết offering (burning votive paper) without sutra chanting, recited during the whole ceremony. The text addresses the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and virtuous Sangha, invites the heavenly beings, spirits, and related wandering spirits to support the ceremony, offers pure food, makes a vow of merit, dedicates merit for peace and safety for the family, office, or shop, and prays for the liberation of the invited spirits.
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
One text for the household, office and shop alike; uses "đệ tử"; "xin tác lễ cúng mãn Tết (cúng hóa vàng)"; invokes the heavenly beings, the spirits and the "hợp duyên" souls; includes the vow of merit, a mantra and dedication of merit; has no line on burning gold and silver or on welcoming and seeing off the ancestral spirits.
The common version: Prayer text for the year-end thank-offering rite (hóa vàng)
Offerings and how the rite is done
Offerings, steps and things to avoid for Lễ hóa vàng (rite of burning votive paper)
Other texts for Lễ hóa vàng (rite of burning votive paper)
- Folk practicePrayer text for the year-end thank-offering rite (hóa vàng)
- Folk practicePrayer text for hóa vàng on the 3rd day of Tết, according to Văn khấn cổ truyền Việt Nam (Traditional Vietnamese Prayer Texts)
- Folk practicePrayer text for the thank-offering rite (the version "Kính lạy... Cẩn cáo", hóa vàng rite, Tết Khai hạ)
- Folk practice, Address to the ancestorsPrayer text for offering to the ancestors on the 3rd day of Tết (lễ tạ ông vải)
- BuddhistPrayer text for the end-of-Tết offering (3rd day) (Buddhist version)
- Folk practicePrayer text for offering to Ông Táo on the 7th of the first lunar month (lễ khai hạ, offered together with the ancestors and the deities)
More about Lễ hóa vàng (rite of burning votive paper)
Nhật Nguyệt articles on the rite, the custom and how to prepare.
- Festival customsWhen Is the Votive Paper Burning Ceremony to See Off Ancestors After Tet, and What Should You Prepare?
- Festival customsTet worship rituals in northern Vietnam from the 23rd of the 12th lunar month to the vang ma burning rite: sequence, offerings and meaning
- Festival customsTết Rites in Southern Vietnam: Welcoming the Ancestors, the Giao Thừa Offering, Tết Nhà on the Third and the Farewell
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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