Văn hồi hướng cúng thí (Text for dedication of merit in the thí offering) (Thí thực cô hồn 14)

Cúng thí thực (Mông Sơn thí thực). The pagoda performs it daily and during trai đàn chẩn tế (rites to feed the hungry) and lễ cầu siêu (prayers for the dead); the head of the household can request it to be done at home

  • South Central Coast
  • Bình Định
  • Buddhist
  • Dedication of merit
  • Buddhist repentance text or verse (sám, kệ)

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What this prayer says

A dedication text for the food-bestowal offering, recited in the dedication of merit section of the thí thực rite to dedicate the merit to wandering spirits, hungry ghosts and all souls, vowing that their karmic obstacles be cleared and that all may attain the Bodhi path.

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

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Your regional custom

This text is the version from the Centre.

How it differs from the common version

Bích Liên's Nôm rendering: it opens with "Nguồn chơn trong văn vắt, Tánh tội vẫn là không", ends with "Ai ai cũng đồng viên chủng trí"; it has the same meaning and the same closing line as the Hồi hướng tế văn (number 12).

The common version: Sám văn thí thực hồi hướng (Repentance text of the thí thực with dedication of merit) (Thí thực cô hồn 5)

Other texts for Cúng thí thực (Mông Sơn thí thực)

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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