Text for the regular spring offering rite of the high lantern春例高燈醮禮文
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 · 82 Chinese characters · reading time 0.8 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 utmost god cannot be measured, and leaning upon the Jade Realm (玉境) he dwells in the void; a small wisdom is of itself partial, and hanging up a golden lamp it gathers its earnestness together. Though it be but one exceedingly small wick, I pray that it may pass through to the nine gates.
Now, entering the second month, I follow the statutes of those before me. Reverently I cleanse the offering rite of the cloud altar and look up to welcome the coming of your wind-borne car.
Come and be present here, and swiftly add your partaking and your consent. Block calamity and summon blessing, and lengthen forever the blessing of long life; rescue the age and bring the people peace, that the work of fullness attained may be well kept.