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Invocation announcing the undertaking to Gyeongnyeongjeon Hall on the day of bearing the scriptures in procession through the streets經行日景靈殿告事祝

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 · 32 Chinese characters · reading time 0.3 min

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.

傃彼闕庭。將授經以徇路。扣于仙寢。先寓信以陳籩。庶仗祖先之靈。永除疾疫之氣。

Facing that palace courtyard, we are about to bear the scriptures in procession along the road. Knocking at the spirit chamber, we first pledge our faith and set out the sacrificial vessels.

We pray that, leaning on the ancestral spirits, the breath of pestilence be destroyed for all time.