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Text for the burning of incense at the Hall of the Medicine Buddha藥師殿行香文

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 · 96 Chinese characters · reading time 0.9 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 39 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.

界若琉璃之靜。有大醫王。光踰日月之明。照諸刹土。自于先格。妥我尊容。罄陳供養之儀。來者尙矣。仰賴慈悲之蔭。利其博哉。玆率貽謀。寔嚴妙範。辦熏熏之信饌。燒種種之名香。庶仗勝因。尋蒙善護。緝熙于嘏。茂延胡考之期。安定厥邦。永保盈成之業。

In a place where the world is still as glass dwells the Buddha who is the Great Physician (大醫王), and his light, brighter than sun and moon, shines upon all lands.

Since the time of the former kings his honored form has been enshrined at ease and the rite of offerings furnished in full, and so it has long been. Looking up, we lean upon the shade of his compassion, and its benefit is broad. So, following the plan handed down to us, we strictly furnish the marvelous rite: we prepare the fragrant food of faith and burn every kind of famous incense.

Leaning upon this surpassing cause, we would straightway receive your good care. Let blessing shine on and on, luxuriantly lengthening the term of long life; and let this land be at peace, so that the work brought to fullness may be kept for long.