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On the Fourteenth of the Tenth Month, Reading the Śūraṅgama Sūtra with the Geomungo Set Beside Me, I Played It and Thereupon Made This十月十四日。看楞嚴。傍置琴彈之。因有作。

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 · 28 Chinese characters · reading time 0.3 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 5 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.

手能司弄目能尋。白傘觀時亦按琴。莫道臨經容剩事。我將供養以聲音。

My hand attends to the playing and my eyes can still seek Even while reading the 'White Parasol' (白傘蓋), I press the geomungo too Do not say that with the sutra before me I allow myself useless things I mean to make my offering with sound