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Text for the Dragon-Summoning rite held at Dongnimsa to turn away epidemic東林寺行疫病祈禳召龍道場文

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 · 114 Chinese characters · reading time 1.3 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.

眞乘最妙。佛與佛以護持。善囑猶存。人非人而歡喜。苟勤熏奉。尋沐恩慈。顧時令之傷和。亘民居而被疫。后非衆罔與守。敢寬矜恤之心。天作孼猶可違。竊計禬禳之要。宜投法寶。用丐梵庥。陳覺席於鴦廬。演靈文於虯藏。伏願眞風所作。環宇同加。將樂將安。永絶陰陽之寇。旣繁旣庶。咸躋仁壽之鄕。

The true teaching is most marvelous, and Buddha after Buddha gives it protection; the good charge remains just as it was, and men and those who are not men all rejoice in it. If one is truly diligent in burning incense and serving it, one is at once steeped in favor and compassion.

Looking back, the seasons have injured the harmonious air, and wherever the people dwell they have suffered epidemic. A ruler without a people has none to keep the land with him — how then should I dare slacken my heart of pity? It is said that a calamity Heaven has made may yet be escaped, and so I quietly plan the essential road for turning calamity away.

It is fitting to go to the treasure of the Law and pray for the Buddha's help. In the monastery we spread the seat of enlightenment, and from the scriptures of the dragon palace we unroll and read the divine writing.

Prostrate, I pray that wherever the true teaching arises it may reach the whole world together. Let there be joy and ease, so that the sicknesses that come in when yin and yang go awry are cut off forever; and let the people flourish and multiply, so that all may rise into a district of benevolence and long life.

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