A Text on Repairing What Was Held Within the Body of the Avalokiteshvara of Naksan洛山觀音腹藏修補文
云云。洪惟東海之濱洛山之上。有一勝境。淸淨無塵。水月睟相。於是乎寄焉。嗟乎。憬彼頑戎。無知莫甚。方其橫行冠掠也。至於佛宇梵相。無不被其殘毀者。我大聖尊軀亦爾。雖形體僅存。而腹中之珍藏。盡爲搜露散頓。枵然其空矣。且至人境界。本絶盈虛消息之理。則金剛眞體。寧且有毀滅耶。然在凡夫所覩。得不愴然傷心哉。況如弟子者。仰止之心。自昔滋切。乃今聞腹藏潰散之事。能不倍痛於人。而勇爲之補理耶。是用挨舊所藏。謹備心圓鏡二事及五香五藥色絲錦囊等衆緣。以充其服。完而復之。與昔無損。庸何傷乎。所願者云云。弟子頓首扣顤。仍以短頌贊之云。
And so forth. Thinking greatly upon it: upon Naksan (洛山) by the shore of the Eastern Sea there is one excellent place, clear and clean and without dust, and the form bright as the moon reflected in water abides there.
Ah, those stubborn barbarians — there is nothing in which their ignorance is worse than this. When they went about as they pleased and plundered, there was neither temple building nor Buddha-form that did not suffer their breaking. The lofty body of our Great Sage was so too: the shape of it barely remained, but the jewels stored in the belly were all rummaged out and scattered away, so that it was empty.
Moreover, the realm of the Utmost One is from the first cut off from the principle of waxing and waning, of lessening and increasing; how should the true body of the Diamond be broken and lost? And yet to the eye of the ordinary man, can it be that one is not grieved and pained at heart? How much more a disciple like myself, whose heart of looking up has been the more earnest from of old. Now, hearing this matter of the scattering of what was stored in the belly, can I be other than twice as pained as another, and can I fail to repair and refurnish it swiftly?
So, looking into what was stored of old, I have reverently made ready two mirrors of the Round Mind (心圓鏡) and the five incenses and the five medicines and colored thread and silk pouches and such other things, and have filled the inside of its belly with them. Making it whole and restoring it, it is no different from of old; what then is harmed? What is wished for is thus and thus. The disciple bows his head and knocks his brow upon the ground, and then praises it with a short gatha.
Interlinear notes 2
幷頌○代崔相國行。今晉陽侯也。
A gatha was appended with it. It was performed on behalf of Chancellor Choe (崔相國), who is the present Marquis of Jinyang (晉陽侯).
以充其服 — The base text has 服, but it is taken as an error for 腹 (belly). The title of the piece is 腹藏修補文. — Translator
究竟不毀。金剛眞身。外之像設。成毀由人。人非一類。或敬或侮。彼侮而殘。我敬而補。如月斯缺。未幾復全。凡百士女。一心歸虔。
The true body of the Diamond, which in the end is never broken — the form set up outside it is made and broken at men's hands. Men are not all of one kind: some revere and some despise. They despised it and broke it; I revere it and repair it. As the moon, though it wane like this, before long grows full again, men and women of the whole country, come back with one heart and all sincerity.