The Master Yeongyeo迎如師
1He Enters the Gate and Vanishes
迎如師實際寺釋迎如未詳族氏,徳行雙髙.景徳王将邀致供飬遣使徴之.如詣内齋罷将還,王遣使陪送至寺.入門即隠不知所在.使来奏,王異之,追封國師.後亦不復現世,至今稱曰國師房.
The master Yeongyeo.
The monk Yeongyeo (迎如) of Siljesa was of a clan not known in detail, and both his virtue and his conduct were lofty.
King Gyeongdeok wished to receive him and make an offering, and sent a messenger to summon him.
Yeongyeo went to the palace, and when the feast was over and he was about to return, the king sent a messenger to escort him back to the temple.
As soon as he entered the gate he vanished, and no one knew where he was.
The messenger came back and reported, and the king marveled and honored him after the fact with the title of national preceptor.
Afterward he never appeared in the world again. To this day the place is called the National Preceptor's Cell (國師房).
2The Five Monks of Pocheonsan
布川山五比丘景徳王代歃良州東北二十許里有布山川石窟竒秀宛如人斲.有五比丘未詳名氏.来寓而念弥陁,求西方㡬十年,忽有聖象自西来迎.於是五比丘各㘴蓮䑓,乗空而逝至通度寺門外留連,而天樂間奏.寺僧出觀,五比丘爲說無常苦空之理,蛻棄遺骸放大光明向西而去.其捐舎處寺僧起亭榭,名置樓至今存焉.
The five monks of Pocheonsan.
In the reign of King Gyeongdeok, about twenty li northeast of Samnyangju there was Pocheonsan, whose rock caves were so strange and fine that they seemed carved by human hands.
There were five monks whose names and clans are not known in detail.
They came and lived there, chanting to Amitabha and seeking the Western Paradise for several decades, when suddenly a holy figure came from the west to receive them.
Then the five monks each sat on a lotus seat, rode the air, and went.
They came to the gate of Tongdosa and lingered there, while heavenly music played from time to time.
The monks of the temple came out to look, and the five monks expounded for them the truth of impermanence, suffering, and emptiness, then cast off their remaining bodies like shed skins, gave off a great light, and went toward the west.
On the spot where they left their bodies the monks of the temple built a pavilion and named it Chiru (置樓), and it still stands today.