Petition in celebration of the new founding of Yongbowon龍寶院新創慶讚踈
興大利不必舊䂓。貴能適變。理古寺猶得梵福。况迺創新。眷上都之邇畿。有南壤之要會。其距民居也最隔。故爲賊種之常栖。凡馬駄人負之所輸。皆國用家資之攸仰。備經山水。邈自遠來。垂蹈京師。反爲他有。非惟物之見掠。甚則人亦被戕。聞之大嗟。思所可救。宜開僧院。使不絶於人煙。鎭作福場。亦得依於佛蔭。與善知識。發大願悰。旣崇鱗屋而處以釋流。申納膏田而充其歲費。麗之聚落。備厥使令。功皆出於私營。力不借於官辦。方其已事。將以落成。謂精覈盧舍那之淨根。凡莫如李長者之英論。先此會而雖已繙於九件。本所期者欲連講於十番。所邀皆南地之名僧。數盈一百。以此演圓通之正法。利洽大千。繄玆勝因。格彼明鑒。伏願邦基定鼎。聖算後天。公私殷阜而路不拾遺。中外寧謐而民未識戰。
In raising a great benefit one need not always follow the old rules; what is prized is being able to meet change. Even mending an old monastery still wins the Buddha's blessing; how much more the founding of a new one?
Looking about, within the home region near the capital there is a vital pass on the road from the southern lands. Because it lies farthest from where men dwell, it has become a place where bands of robbers always lodge. Everything borne on horseback or carried on men's backs is what the state's expenditure and the households' livelihood look to. It passes over mountains and waters and comes from far away. Having all but reached the capital, it becomes another's instead. Not only are the goods plundered; in bad cases even people are harmed.
Hearing of this I sighed greatly and thought of a way to rescue them. Fittingly a monastery should be opened so that the smoke of men's cooking is never broken off, and made for all time a place where blessing is worked, so that they may also lean upon the Buddha's shade. Together with a good friend in the Law I raised a mind of great vow. Already the halls, joined like scales, have been raised up to lodge the monks, and besides, fertile fields have been brought in to meet the yearly costs. From the villages of the district those who would run its errands were provided. The work came wholly from what was paid out of private funds, and its strength borrowed nothing of the government's provision.
The work being finished, we would hold the rite of completion. For a close examination of the pure root of Rocana Buddha, I hold that nothing equals the surpassing treatise of the Elder Li Tongxuan. Before this gathering nine readings had already been given, but what was intended from the first was to expound it ten times in succession. Those invited were all renowned monks of the southern lands, and their number filled a hundred. By this the right Law that passes through everywhere is unfolded, so that its benefit suffices for the three thousand great thousand worlds. I pray that this excellent karmic bond reach that bright discernment.
Prostrate, I pray that the foundation of the state be set as firm as a cauldron placed upon its legs, and that His Majesty's life come to its end later than heaven's; that public and private alike be ample, so that no one picks up what has fallen on the road; and that within and without be at peace and still, so that the people do not know war.