““The most commonly used English translation is Marshall Pihl’s, which was first published in Korean Journal in 1968 and reprinted in Peter H. Lee’s 1981 Anthology of Korean Literature.2 It is a rendering of the gyeongpan 24, one of the shortest variants, which was thought at the time to be the authoritative version but is now considered by scholars to be abbreviated from gyeongpan 30. What follows here is a translation of the longest and probably the oldest of the surviving manuscripts, the pilsa 89. I””
