A Guide to Preparing the Most Complete 49-Day Offering.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.

For the deceased, the week-end ceremony, 21-day worshiping ceremony, 49-day- 100-day worshiping ceremony  , ... is very important. These are the rituals from the ancestors' life, especially the 49-day ceremony to pay homage to the deceased, the ceremony takes place to help the deceased's souls to rest peacefully. But many people still do not understand well about the 49 ceremony, do not know what to prepare, how to suit. Offering 49 days  to the deceased is a popular spiritual activity among the followers of our religion, conscience and Buddhism. This is a very important ceremony that has the meaning of sending off the soul of the deceased to the golden stream. So what is the 49-day offering? In the article below, Vietnamese Spiritual Offering will work with you to explore the above issues.

How to worship 49 days?

The 49-day worshiping ceremony (Sino-Vietnamese: Chung Furniture) is a form of belief, at the same time it is also a very important ceremony for the death of the survivor. This is an opening ceremony 49 days after the death.

This custom is based on the Vietnamese Buddhist theory: Soul after death must go through 7 judgments, each lasting 7 days. Then the soul has to go through a large power in the underworld, after 7 weeks the soul will be saved.

This is the time to bring the soul of the dead to rely on the Buddha's door. This is a very important commemoration ceremony for Vietnamese people to commemorate the death anniversary, in order to show the respect, mercy and remembrance of the survivors to the deceased.

The descendants' chanting of Buddhist chants to their loved ones within 49 days is very respectful. This is also an imitation of the teachings that Buddhists follow. So, very right there is nothing wrong. However, it is important that while chanting, people must sincerely earnestly, bring wholeheartedly to chant prayers. If so, the person who recites the chant will benefit and the spirit will also benefit somewhat.

Meaning of worshiping 49 days

Buddhism believes that it is not all dead people. After this body disintegrates, the consciousness, depending on karma, is reborn in the realms corresponding to the karmic cause created by the other, except for the great masters such as Buddha, Bodhisattvas, and Arhat has cut the line of craving, has got rid of the cycle of samsara. This world of consciousness not only has human realms, but also other realms.

Thus, the 49-day ritual is really meaningful only for those who have not yet determined to be reborn in any realm, or are in a lethargic state of the bardo. Such super-prayers have the effect of reminding and reminding the deceased to focus on the good deeds done or earnestly perform good thoughts, so that the consciousness is reborn in a better realm. "

What do the 49-day rituals need?

What is included in the 49-day worshiping ceremony ? According to the spirit of the Jizō Sutta and the Buddhist view of the North in general, the consciousness of a person after death is mostly to go through the intermediate stage, life expectancy at most is 49 days, after which born in a realm corresponding to the karma they have created.

And it is not necessary to wait until the day of death (49 days after death) for the spirit to be reborn, which can be immediately after death, or in the first week (7 days after death), or in the seventh week. Two (14 days after death) until the next few weeks of incense can be reborn depending on conditions and karma of each person.

During the period of intermediate and warm life, the spirit of the spirit can still use all the items offered by relatives (usually rice, water, incense, and flowers) but only enjoy the taste of food. Therefore, the intermediate state body is also called warm flavor (using the scent of food).

Therefore, within 49 days, relatives need to offer daily rice and water offerings to the dead so that they can be satisfied, especially on irregular weeks of worshiping more solemnly (such as going to a temple or visiting monks to come home for a ceremony. super demand for the deceased).

So, after 49 days, will we offer rice again?

After 49 days, when the consciousness finds the realm of rebirth, usually they are born in one of the six realms of the six paths (heaven, a tu la, human, animal, hungry ghost, hell) and from here on, the longevity Their application is different. For example, if the consciousness is born in the heavenly realm, they will not eat the food of the human realm because the food in the celestial realm is many times more.

Or if they fall into hell, then they will not be able to use human food because of torture, having to eat hot iron, drink hot copper water, endure great suffering, etc. demons can still "eat" the offerings offered by relatives.

On the other hand, for Vietnamese customs, making offerings to ancestors' parents also shows the sincerity of descendants towards the deceased. Therefore, to commemorate relatives, on anniversaries or Tet holidays, a tray of rice and fruits to honor grandparents and ancestors is indispensable. Because we are mortal, we do not know where our relatives are reborn after death (beings in demons still enjoy offerings) and offer rice and water to show their sincerity and gratitude. With the deceased is a fine national tradition, we need to practice worshiping.

That is, after 49 days when the consciousness has been reborn, we do not offer rice and water every day as before, but on the following holidays such as a small wall, great wall or annual anniversary, relatives need to make a tray. death anniversary rice. There is something that should not be too dependent on the form in worship but always keep in mind "silver ceremony but sincerity", the memorial of the deceased in the spirit of gratitude and gratitude.

The problem of chanting the Medicine Master's Sutras to "pray for peace" for the mother in the underworld, in our opinion, should be transformed into "praying" for her mother will be more accurate. Because the souls born in the realms of suffering always expect their loved ones to do good and good deeds to dedicate them to them, helping them to rely on that blessing to quickly gain supernatural birth.

Chanting (not necessarily the Medicine Master, Jizō or Di Da ...), the ceremony, making blessings such as making offerings, giving alms, giving birth and dedicating blessings to relatives are things to do. If the spirit was reborn in peaceful realms, dedicating the merit to them further increased their blessings.

Often, after a loved one dies, a relative is so sorry that he or she thinks about them and often dreams of the deceased. Most of them are just ordinary dreams in our daily lives, not the dreaming of the dead or the ability to "see" the realm of the dead.

Therefore, we should not think too much or find ways to decode our dreams, but it is best to focus all of our energies to bless the spirit dedicating. Thought, those are the actions that have the most practical meaning for supersonic ultrasound prayer.

The 49-day worshiping ceremony is very important for the deceased, so family members need to know the ritual well so that the worship can be thoughtful, helping the deceased to be saved. Hopefully with the article information: What is the 49-day worshiping ceremony, what is needed? help people to have more knowledge about the 49-day holiday.

49-Day Praise

Basically the 49-day worshiping text is the same as the Good Khoc rituals. You can substitute accordingly to use. You can refer to the 49-day worshiping speech as follows:

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Male model Amitabha Buddha

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I bow to the nine directions of God, the ten directions of the Buddhas, the Buddhas of the ten directions.

Today is ……… ..th month ……… ..year …………. (lunar calendar), that is ………… .th month ……… ..year …… .. (solar calendar).

At the address: ………… ..

The eldest son is: ……………

Obey the orders of the mother (if Mother) / Obey the orders of the father (if the Father), the uncles, he is cheap with his sister, brother, sister and bride-in-law, grandchildren and grandchildren bow respectfully.

Today, on Chung That festival, according to the traditional ritual, respectfully purchase the offerings including: Read the names of the gifts purchased.

Feast of the feast with sincere heart.

Before the holy spirit.

Please respectfully submit that:

Mount Support is dim, Thung's house is shadowy (if it is Father) / Nui Di is dim, Huyen's family is shadowy (if it is a Mother). How nurturing parents love. Long time lost lament dreaming. Remembrance of the empty yin and yang. How happy is a hybrid life? Waterfall time tells the sad day every day.

Up to now Chung That next week. Silver ceremony but sincerely called with incense compression.

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Together, the ancestors were worshiped by the Ancestors, To Ba, To Thuc, Ancestors and the ancestors to follow the ancestors.

Respectfully to the following statements: The Patriarch of the Ton Than: Tao Quan, Tho Cong, Thanh Thanh, Tien Su, Ngu Tu Gia God, witnesses and blesses and the whole country has all the best.

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Male model Amitabha Buddha.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.7/9/2020.