Prayer text for the year-end tomb-visiting rite

Tạ mộ cuối năm (year-end grave visit and invitation of the ancestors for Tết). Twelfth lunar month, usually from the 20th to the 30th, mostly after the 23rd

  • Used across Vietnam
  • Buddhist

Culture and belief A record of custom.

What this prayer says

Prayer text for the year-end tomb-visiting rite, respectfully addressing the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and the community of noble ones, inviting the Dharma protectors, benevolent deities, the spirits governing the cemetery, and the spirit of the deceased; the disciple presents offerings, performs the tomb-visiting rite, makes offerings to the Buddhas of the ten directions, the Bodhisattvas, the heavenly beings, the spirits, the Thổ Địa, and offers to the wandering spirits.

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

Fill in before the rite

Your name and address appear in the prayer below and are kept on this device only.

Your regional custom

Showing the version used across Vietnam.

7 more blanks

Offerings and how the rite is done

Offerings, steps and things to avoid for Tạ mộ cuối năm (year-end grave visit and invitation of the ancestors for Tết)

Other texts for Tạ mộ cuối năm (year-end grave visit and invitation of the ancestors for Tết)

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.

More prayer textsDeath anniversaries, Tết, the home, business, life-cycle rites and regional rites.