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Text Presented at the Same Assembly by the Students from Mount Seongju (聖住山) on Bowing to the Patriarch同前聖住山。參學等拜祖師文。
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.
拂三事衲。出從雲水堀中。拈一瓣香。來拜丹靑影下。仰惟道鑑。曲護山門。云云。
Shaking out and putting on the patched rags of the three robes, we have come out from our caves among the clouds and waters. Taking up a single piece of incense, we come and bow beneath the portrait painted in colors. Looking up, we beg that with the bright mirror of the Way you look down and watch over the mountain gate. And so forth.