Text for the Mundooru (文豆婁) rite at Geumgangsa in the same Seogyeong同京金剛寺文豆婁道場文
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 · 110 Chinese characters · reading time 1.2 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.
Its teaching is beyond reckoning and reaches broadly to lands as many as the sands of the Ganges; its power cannot be overcome, and nothing stands higher than the gate of the Divine Seal (神印).
I consider that in my own person I have presumed to succeed to a great blessing. Though my cares are deep and my thoughts reach far, I have as yet no long plan for governing in peace. I fear that in the gap that opens a rough and fierce band may come invading. Leaning upon marvelous help, I would break beforehand the collision that comes from afar.
I send an envoy to Seogyeong to open a seat for the burning of incense in a pure monastery, and call and welcome the true company to unroll and read the secret teaching.
Looking up, I pray that with the hidden heart of skillful means you will bend down and lend us a divine response. Let spear and shield be hidden and put away, so that forever there is no fear of contempt from outside; and let the altars of the state be divinely carried on, so that we may sit and enjoy the good fortune of a restoration.