Petition for the Repairing and Unrolling of the Great Canon at Yeongtong Temple靈通寺修補大藏披覽踈
一音演法。開衆妙之門。萬軸盈函。號最大之寶。由其創本之不易。亦於補廢也可嘉。伏念云云。夙託眞庥。庶裨王化。凡佛事有可得辦。期吾生無所不爲。彼坎地之伽藍。有竺經之俱舍。邈矣歲季之寢遠。惜乎部秩之多遺。紛綸焉若雲之分。散頓焉如絲之亂。自聞斯事。嘗語於心。天之虧有鍊石可補之因。日之側有揮戈可廻之理。矧玆身力之所及。何惜功勤而不營。尋發露於精虔。悉緝修於逸漏。韜珠更映。缺月重盈。方能事之甫周。邀悟流而是閱。千指繙轉。六種震驚。伏願聖德增暉。播四方之歌詠。皇綱更紐。無一事之闕遺。下至羣生。安如再活。
With one voice the Dharma is set forth and the gate of the manifold wonders is opened; ten thousand scrolls fill the cases, and it is called the greatest of treasures. It was no easy thing to make the first copy of it, and so the mending and filling in of what has been lost is likewise to be commended.
Prostrate I consider, and so forth. Long ago I entrusted myself to true aid and hoped to assist the sovereign's governance. Whatever may be furnished by way of Buddhist works, I pledge that there shall be nothing of it I leave undone in my whole life.
In that temple in the northern land there is a storehouse of the Buddha's scriptures. As the years have grown remote, many volumes have, to our regret, gone missing. They are disordered as clouds scattered and dispersed as threads tangled. Ever since I heard of this I have been saying it within my heart. Where heaven has been breached there is a reason by which stones may be fired to patch and fill it; where the sun has declined there is a principle by which a spear may be brandished to turn it back. How much more, then, where the strength of this body reaches — how should I begrudge labour and diligence and not set it in hand?
Thereupon I showed forth sincerity and reverence, and mended and set right all that had dropped out and leaked away. The hidden pearl shines again, and the waning moon has come full once more. The great work had barely been brought round to its end when we welcomed the awakened ones and unrolled it for the reading. A hundred men turn and roll the scrolls, and the earth quakes in its six ways.
Prostrate, I pray that the sacred virtue add to its brightness and spread as song through the four quarters; that the net-cords of the state be bound anew so that not one affair is left out; and that, down to the multitude of the people, all be at peace as though brought back to life.