Mangmyeong亡名
1The Goguryeo monk whose name is not handed down — Zhi Dun of Jin sends him a letter
釋亡名。句高麗人也。志道依仁。守真據德。人不知而不慍。考鍾于內。在邦必聞。霈然有餘。厥聞旁馳。晉支遁法師貽書云。上座竺法深。中州劉公之弟子。體性貞峙。道俗綸綜。往在京邑。維持法綱。內外具瞻。弘道之匠也。遁公中朝重望。其所與寄聲交好。必宏材巨擘。而況外國之士。非其勝人。寧有若斯之報耶。且佛教既從晉行乎海東。則宋齊之間。應有豪傑之輩與時則奮。而無載籍。悲夫。然彼宋人朱靈期〔或作虛〕使自高麗。還失濟於洲上得杯渡之鉢。又齊時高麗未達佛生之事。問高僧法上。上以周昭之瑞為答。則高人烈士。西笑於中國。䛦取綱要者固不少矣。時無良史羅縷厥緒為恨耳。
The monk Mangmyeong (亡名) was a man of Goguryeo. He set his mind on the way and leaned upon goodness; he kept what is true and took his stand in virtue. When men did not know him he was not put out, and he struck the bell (鍾) within, so that being in his own country he was bound to be heard of. His fullness ran over, and word of him ran out on every side.
Zhi Dun (支遁), a master of the Law of Jin, sent a letter which said, "The senior monk Zhu Fashen (竺法深) is a disciple of the honourable Liu (劉公) of the Central Plain. His body and his nature are straight and towering, and he draws together the men of the way and the men of the world alike. In earlier days he was in the capital and held the net of the Law, and within and without all looked up to him. He is a master craftsman in spreading the way." The honourable Zhi Dun was one who was held in weight at the court of the Central Plain. If this was a man to whom he sent his voice and with whom he kept friendship, that man must have had great talent and the first rank of capacity — how much more, being a scholar of another country! Unless he was an outstanding man, how should he have had such notice as this?
Again, since the teaching of the Buddha had already gone from Jin to Haedong, there must have been men of bold parts between Song and Qi who met their time and rose up; yet there is no book that sets them down. How sad.
Still, that man of Song, Zhu Lingqi (朱靈期)〔written also as Xu (虛)〕, went as envoy to Goguryeo, and on his way back he got clear of the water and on an island found the bowl of Beidu (杯渡). And in the time of Qi, Goguryeo did not know about the birth of the Buddha and asked the eminent monk Fashang (法上), and Fashang answered with the good omen of the time of King Zhao of Zhou. So there were truly not a few high men and stout scholars who looked west toward China and smiled, and who picked out and held fast the net and the heart of the matter. It is only to be regretted that there was no good historian then to set down their threads one by one.