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Roaming at Geumsinsa Temple (遊金身寺)遊金身寺
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.
四老皤然白雪鬚。相誇免蹶路崎嶇。同來此寺寧無謂。各保金剛不壞軀。
Four old men, with beards grizzled white as snow, boast to one another of not having stumbled on the rough road. How should our coming together to this temple be without meaning? Each means to keep a body indestructible as adamant.
Interlinear notes 2
四月二十七日。致仕宰臣等。因事同會。凡四老。
On the twenty-seventh day of the fourth month, ministers retired from office gathered together on some business. There were four old men in all.
一作移得金人不壞軀。
In some copies this reads, "we have gained, transferred to us, the indestructible body of the golden man (金人)."