Prayer text for Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha (hoatieu.vn version)

Lễ Đức Quán Thế Âm và Đức Địa Tạng Vương Bồ Tát. When going to the pagoda to worship

  • Used across Vietnam
  • Folk practice

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What this prayer says

Prayer text to Địa Tạng Vương Bồ Tát (Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha), in which the tín chủ (the person making the offering) presents offerings, incense and flowers and asks the Bodhisattva to protect, erase sins, watch over them in illness and bring the ancestral spirits to deliverance. 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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How it differs from the common version

This version differs from the original: it does not have the line "Con lạy chín phương trời"; it adds the line "Kính lễ Đức U Minh giáo chủ thuỳ từ chứng giám"; it uses "Đức Địa Tạng Vương" instead of "đức Đại sĩ"; it ends with "Dãi tấm lòng thành, cúi xin bái thỉnh. Cẩn nguyện".

The common version: Prayer text for the ceremony for Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha (Lord of the Underworld)

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Sources

  • Bài khấn đi lễ chùa (hoatieu.vn)

Part of the open dataset Vietnamese offering prayers (văn cúng), licensed CC BY 4.0.

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