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Matching the Rhymes of the Poem the Song Chan Master Bo Sent to the Venerable Gonggong次韻宋朝播禪老寄空空上人

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 · 93 Chinese characters · reading time 0.8 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 3 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.

宋朝禪子祖播。因歐陽伯虎東來。以詩一首。寄我國空空上人。兼貺漆鉢五器斑竹杖一事。又名庵曰兔角。手書其額以寄之。予嘉兩師千里相契之意。又聞歐陽君詩名。亦復渴仰。因和二首。一以寄播禪老。兼簡空空上人。一以寄歐陽二十九。

Zubo (祖播), a Chan monk of the Song, sent one poem by the hand of Ouyang Bohu (歐陽伯虎), who was coming eastward, to the Venerable Gonggong (空空上人) of our country, and along with it five sets of lacquered begging bowls and one staff of mottled bamboo. He also named the hermitage 「Togak (兔角)」 and wrote out its signboard with his own hand and sent it.

I thought it beautiful that the two monks had met in mind from a thousand li apart, and hearing also of Master Ouyang's name as a poet I looked up to him thirstily. So I have replied with two poems: one I send to Chan Master Bo, informing the Venerable Gonggong as well, and one I send to Ouyang the Twenty-ninth.

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The preface is carried along with it.