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Hearing That a Monk Given Office Broke His Vows and Was Punished, Chanted in Jest聞批職僧犯戒被刑。以詩戱之。

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 · 2 passages · 55 Chinese characters · reading time 0.6 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 1 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.

勿論髮在與頭𮫐。好色人心揔一般。不有如來神呪力。摩登幾已誤阿難。

Whether the hair is left or the head is shaven, there is nothing to choose between them: the human heart's love of women is all of one kind Had there been no power in the divine spell of the Tathagata (如來), Matangi (摩登) would nearly have led Ananda (阿難) astray

此髠謀拙被人擒。國令何曾一一尋。任遣生雛皆壯大。盡驅南畝力耕深。

This shaveling was clumsy in his scheming and so was caught by others — when did the law of the land ever hunt down every one of them? Let the young they beget all grow up strong and tall, then drive them all to the southern fields to plow deep with all their strength