"Seodang Hwasang bi" (Epitaph of the Reverend Seodang)

Upper part and rubbing. Property of Dongguk University Museum

The original stone is weathered; the following is a transcription of the visible characters in the rubbing, read from right to left, top to bottom.

[...] Kind Village
[...] Master
[...] Away
[...] Emptiness

[...] Tang Sage Kindness Long Life?
[...] Danger overflows to distant lands, honoring the flowing moisture
[...] Kind and compassionate, wishing to harmonize the light, thus the smoke and clouds
[...] Prepared in number, saying "obscure," breaking and becoming flourishing, saying

[...] The end entrusts destruction, the day of the Buddha
[...] All of the phoenix's greatness
[...] Stopped and ran away
[...] Conduct, eulogy, and
[...] Searching for the Law, the year
[...] Far

[...] The posthumous title of the Great Master says: "I"
[...] The Master's wise descendant, Boqing, is very...
[...] One cycle, not without personally presenting ritual offerings, appearing
[...] The secular world all calls him a Dragon of the Dharma, Han Yu passed away
[...] Middle
[...] Exclamation

[...] Sent
[...] Have
[...] Level
[...] Traces
[...] Followed

[...] Grand Master
[...] Bian Gong, the mountains and seas, all these are the beauty of the earth, eternal
[...] Life, if it is in the skin, weaving the Dharma, heavy human
[...] Appearance, reaching understanding, not attending to the ten states

[...] Study, mind, account
[...] Imperial Decree

[...] Body
[...] Sūtra
[...] Conduct
[...] Secret

[...] And the country
[...] Becomes ruined wood
[...] Recorded, what is suspended
[...] Appearance, joy
[...] Title
[...] Day

[...] Praise