Text for the preaching of the Golden Light Sutra at Jungheungsa in Seogyeong西京重興寺。說金經文。
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.
The wondrous enlightenment of the lotus seat opens and unrolls the secret store of scripture, and the spirits sunk in the water realm hear the hidden words and rejoice.
I consider that, having come to the seat of the sovereign, I reverently follow my ancestors' designs. Choosing a fine time in the season of winter, it is this very hour. I detach from the court a close attendant minister and send him hither. He seeks out the temple and there spreads the seat for the burning of incense, and welcoming the pure company that keeps the six harmonies, he has them unfold the true source of the two wonders. At what is voiced upon their tongues the Dragon King rejoices together with us.
Let the yin and the yang not go awry, that the harmonizing air may flow everywhere; and let wind and rain be ever even, bringing about a great harvest of fair grain.