Lễ Đức Quán Thế Âm và Đức Địa Tạng Vương Bồ Tát

  • Pagodas, communal houses, temples and shrines
  • 6 prayer texts

Culture and belief A record of custom.

About this rite: when it is held and for whom

Also called: Văn khấn Phật bà Quan Âm, Văn khấn Địa Tạng Vương Bồ Tát, U Minh giáo chủ

Two separate prayers for the two Bodhisattvas, recited before the Buddha altar when visiting a pagoda. The Ksitigarbha prayer includes an additional vow for the ancestral spirits to attain liberation.

When
When going to the pagoda to worship
For whom
Quán Thế Âm Bồ Tát (Bodhisattva Guanyin); Địa Tạng Vương Bồ Tát (U Minh giáo chủ, Lord of the Underworld)

Prayer text for the ceremony for Bodhisattva Guanyin (Bodhisattva Guanyin)

  • Used across Vietnam
  • Folk practice

What this prayer says

Prayer text for the ceremony to Quán Thế Âm Bồ Tát (Bodhisattva Guanyin), in which the tín chủ (the person making the offering) presents offerings, incense and flowers and asks the Bodhisattva to protect and save the family, granting health, blessings and longevity, wealth and all good things. It is read before the Buddha altar when visiting a pagoda.

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

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Other texts for Lễ Đức Quán Thế Âm và Đức Địa Tạng Vương Bồ Tát

Versions by region, by tradition and for each part of the rite.

More about Lễ Đức Quán Thế Âm và Đức Địa Tạng Vương Bồ Tát

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

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Sources

  • Văn khấn lễ Đức Quán Thế Âm Bồ Tát (vankhan.vn)

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

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