Prayer text to deities at the grave (for tảo mộ, repairing the grave, bốc mộ)
Prayers to deities and spirits at the grave. Whenever visiting the grave: Thanh minh, year-end, death anniversary, when repairing the grave
- Used across Vietnam
- Folk practice
- Address to the deities
Culture and belief A record of custom.
What this prayer says
Prayer to the deities at the grave, used when tidying, repairing or exhuming a grave. The tín chủ (the person making the offering) presents offerings and respectfully reports to the deities, Thổ Công (Earth God of the house), Long Mạch and the other deities governing the area, asking permission to repair the grave and praying for the soul to be at peace and liberated, and for the family to be healthy and safe.
The prayer below is kept in Vietnamese, the language it is read aloud in during the rite.
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Showing the version used across Vietnam.
Lines that depend on the occasion
- Nhân tiết Thanh minh (hoặc là nhân tiết thu, tiết đông, hoặc nhân ngày lành tháng tốt…): State the correct occasion for visiting the grave.
- nay muốn sửa sang xây đắp (hoặc tảo mộ, bốc mộ…): State the correct action intended at the grave.
Offerings and how the rite is done
Offerings, steps and things to avoid for Prayers to deities and spirits at the grave
Other texts for Prayers to deities and spirits at the grave
- Folk practice, Address to the deitiesPrayer text to the deity officials outside the cemetery
- Folk practice, At the gravePrayer text for the offering to spirits at the grave
- Folk practice, Address to the deitiesPrayer text to Long Mạch, Sơn Thần and Thổ Thần (before and after moving the grave)
- Folk practice, At the gravePrayer text when visiting and repairing graves (the version "Cung duy... Cẩn cáo")
- Folk practice, Address to the deitiesPrayer text at the shrine of the spirits of the cemetery
The wording is kept exactly as published by the source. The dotted italic words are blanks for you to fill in.
Sources
- Bài khấn thần linh ngoài mộ (hoatieu.vn)
- Văn khấn vong linh ngoài trời (hoatieu.vn)
- Văn khấn Tết thanh minh (vankhan.vn)
- Văn khấn lễ âm phần Long mạch, Sơn thần thổ phủ nơi mộ (tuvi.vn)
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