Petition for the Dharma Assembly of the Sutra of the Benevolent King and the Sutra of Golden Light仁王及金經法席踈
金皷中理懺事懺之音。最爲微妙。寶蓮上人空法空之說。叵可言思。十音所揚。千界同震。某以蕞爾之質。據巍然之司。頃遭丹寇之屢侵。憤莫如此。雖集人謀而博議。計無奈何。謂一憑梵力之神通。卽萬倍強兵之猛銳。况經王是救世之良藥。而佛母乃護國之勝門。盍暢眞源。坐消醜種。故致誠而歸仂。期趁歲以演宣。今玆戎虜之遄還。盖亦神通之所及。其爲信奉。顧與舊以彌加。凡所設施。宜以精而不苟。悉傾私帑。大敞熏筵。執玉軸者指千。旣盈乎百座。禮金身則心一。已格於六天。伏願災沴不生。禎祥沓至。夷狄絶窺窬之望。形滅影消。邦家膺悠久之基。根深蔕固。
Within the golden drum, the sound of repentance by principle and repentance by deed is the most subtle of all; upon the jewelled lotus, the word that the self is empty and dharmas too are empty cannot be measured by speech or thought. Where the ten sounds are sent forth, a thousand worlds tremble together.
So-and-so, with a slight and trifling substance, has occupied a towering place. Lately we met the repeated raiding of the Khitan bandits, and no indignation was ever like this. Though I gathered men's counsels and deliberated widely, our schemes could do nothing. I judged that to lean but once upon the supernatural power of the Buddha would be ten thousand times better than the swiftness of a stout army.
How much more so when the king of sutras is a good medicine for saving the world, and the prajñā that gives birth to buddhas is an excellent gate for guarding the state. How should we not set forth the true source and, sitting still, make the filthy host dissolve? Therefore I spent my utmost sincerity and offered my strength, pledging to hold the rite before the year was out. That the barbarians have now withdrawn so quickly is also, in the main, what that supernatural power reached to. And so my faith and reverence are, as I look back, greater even than before.
Whatever is given should be given in sincerity and not in a grudging way. I have emptied my private storehouse altogether and opened wide a seat of burning incense. Those who hold the jade rollers are a hundred men, so that a hundred seats are already filled; and as reverence is paid to the golden body, hearts become one and have already reached the six heavens.
Prostrate, I pray that no calamity arise and auspicious signs come again and again; that the barbarians' hope of spying be cut off, their forms vanish and their shadows dissolve; and that the state receive a long and lasting foundation, its root deep and its stem firm.