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Text Presented at the Seon Discourse Assembly by the Students from Mount Sumi (須彌山) on Paying Homage to the Patriarch's Portrait談禪會須彌山。參學等謁祖師眞文。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 12 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.
云云。傳心曰祖。嗣脈者孫。白月朗然。遺影宛存於紈素。高山仰止。群髡共造於庭階。第勤拜扣之誠。覬荷恩靈之庇。云云。
And so forth. He who transmitted the mind is called the patriarch, and those who continue his line are called sons and grandsons. As the white moon shines bright, the likeness he left behind remains vivid upon white silk; as one looks up to a high mountain, the many monks go forward together to the steps of the courtyard. We only make diligent the sincerity of bowing in homage, and hope to receive the covering of your numinous grace. And so forth.