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Text for the burning of incense at Sibwon Hall十員殿行香文

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 · 120 Chinese characters · reading time 1.1 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.

以心傳心。雖絶有爲之法。惟佛與佛。亦開應供之門。自先格南面以還。嚮祖師西來之意。直於禁宇。置此道場。譚向上之宗乘。資無邊之梵福。式至今日。不愆舊章。玆㳙選於良辰。特蠲嚴於淨饌。仰千輻輪想。痛罄瞻依。拈一瓣檀香。虔申熏奉。至誠所格。妙蔭卽加。延曆服之綿洪。永于多享。措邦家於康泰。終然允臧。

Mind is transmitted by mind, and so the law of doing has been cut off; yet Buddha and Buddha have also opened a gate for the receiving of offerings.

Ever since the former kings faced south, turning toward the intent with which the patriarch came from the west, this rite has been kept within the palace itself. Discoursing on the school's teaching that points upward, they gained boundless blessing from the Buddha, and down to this day the old rule has not been broken.

So, choosing out a good time, we furnish pure food specially, cleanly and strictly. Looking up to the mark of the thousand spokes, we give our whole heart to a piercing reliance; and taking up a piece of sandalwood, we reverently burn it in offering.

Where utmost sincerity arrives, the marvelous shade is at once added: lengthen the fortune we enjoy, long and broad, that we may enjoy much of it forever; and set this land in a place of peace and great tranquillity, so that in the end it is truly well.

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