Verse 1 of Ch. 1: Prologue The Scripture of the Founding Master Upon attaining great enlightenment on the twenty-eighth of April (twenty-sixth day of the third lunar month), the first year of the Won-Buddhist Era (1916 C.E.), the Founding Master declared, “All things are of a single body and nature; all dharmas are of a single root source. In this regard, the Way (to) that is free from aris-ing ..