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Report on behalf of the Jogye school (曹溪宗) congratulating the Royal Preceptor代曹溪宗賀王師牋

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) 東國李相國集 · Yi Gyubo · Compiled 1241 (Goryeo, 28th year of King Gojong); revised and enlarged 1251 · 1 passages · 100 Chinese characters · reading time 1.1 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 30 The collected writings of Yi Gyubo of Goryeo, gathered and cut in woodblock by his son Yi Ham in 1241 and revised and enlarged by his grandson Yi Ikbae in 1251. It holds poems and rhapsodies, memorials and reports sent up to the king, records written for temples and pagodas, stele and tomb inscriptions, letters and prefaces, and the state letters that passed to and from the Mongols during the invasions. The Lay of King Dongmyeong, which sings the founder of Goguryeo, stands in volume 3 of the first collection, and the daily life of a man who called himself the White Cloud Layman — with his wine, his zither and his verse — fills the later collection. The book closes with the last poem he wrote as his eyes failed and he laid down the brush, and with the dirge and tomb inscription others made for him after his death.

云云。甘露慈深。久種群生之福。太山望重。蔚爲萬乘之師。凡屬庇庥。悉均慶抃。恭惟王師法尊丈下。心珠瑩澈。法器宏深。衡嶽風高。與能公而吻合。崆峒道在。宜黃帝之膝行。果應推崇。儼加模範。某等攀龍有素。附鳳爲榮。造庭獲覩於盛儀。賀廈悉踰於常品。云云。

And so forth. Your mercy, like sweet dew, is deep, and long has it planted blessings for the many living; your repute, weighty as Mount Tai, has made you in full measure the preceptor of the lord of ten thousand chariots. All who are covered by your shade are alike in their rejoicing and clap their hands.

I humbly consider that Your Reverence the Royal Preceptor, venerable in the Law, has a heart-jewel clear and bright and a vessel of the Law broad and deep. The wind of Hengyue (衡嶽) being lofty, you answer exactly to Master Neng (能公); and the Way being on Mount Kongtong (崆峒山), it was fitting that the ancient sovereign Xuanyuan crawled there on his knees. You have indeed answered to this high reverence and become, in all gravity, a model.

We, So-and-so and the rest, had from the first our clinging to the dragon, and we count it a glory to attach ourselves to the phoenix. Having gone forward into the courtyard and seen the full ceremony, our congratulating of the great house all goes beyond any ordinary bosom.

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私請作

It was composed at a private request.

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