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Invocation praying at the several shrines to avert the calamity when the sixteen-foot image at Wangnyunsa Temple (王輪寺) ran with sweat王輪寺丈六像出汗祈禳諸祠祝
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 40 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.
巋彼寶坊。煥然金像。淋漓被汗。忽彰祅異之徵。戰灼在懷。祗擧禬禳之典。庶歆信薦。終滅災萌。
Upon that lofty and precious temple, the shining golden image has been drenched with sweat, suddenly showing a sign uncanny and strange. With trembling and burning hearts within us, we respectfully carry out the rite that drives calamity away.
We pray you partake of these faithful offerings, and so destroy the seed of calamity.