(Tụng. Mõ, chuông)
(Chủ sám)
(Hạ lễ)
Prayer text for the inauguration rite (for the new house, thank-offering) (no sutra chanting)
Cúng nhập trạch (moving into a new home). The day of moving into the new house, usually a day and hour are chosen
- Used across Vietnam
- Buddhist
Culture and belief A record of custom.
What this prayer says
Prayer text for the housewarming ceremony and thank-offering, in which the disciple addresses the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and the community of noble ones, along with the heavenly beings, deities, and spirits, saying that the house has been completed, presenting offerings in gratitude and dedicating merit for peace and safety; recited during the whole ceremony, without sutra chanting.
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 text differs from the original in that it treats the new-house rite as a thank-offering rite; one text combines the deities, ancestors, and the spirits of the land; there is no passage "Các vị Thần linh, thông minh chính trực"; there is no lighting of the kitchen fire and no request to set up an incense bowl.
The common version: Prayer text to the deities for the nhập trạch (moving into a new house) rite
Offerings and how the rite is done
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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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