Văn thỉnh thập loại cô hồn (Text inviting the ten kinds of wandering spirits) (Thí thực cô hồn 17)

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
  • Invitation
  • Buddhist repentance text or verse (sám, kệ)

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What this prayer says

A text inviting the ten kinds of wandering spirits in the thí thực rite, summoning the ten kinds of wandering spirits and other souls to return and witness the altar; recited in the invitation section.

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