Author: Il-yeon (also spelled as Ilyon or Iryeon).
Title: Samguk Yusa. Legends and history of the Three Kingdoms of ancient Korea. Translated by Tae-Hung Ha & Grafton K. Mintz. [4th printing].
Description: Seoul, Yonsei University Press, [1986]. 456 pp. 5 b./w. maps. Orig. hardcover (black cloth with gilt lettering), d./j. 8vo. Rare copy of the fourth printing (firt printing: 1972). - - Il-yeon (1206-1289), also spelled Iryeon, was a Korean Buddhist monk and All-Enlightened National Preceptor during the Goryeo Dynasty of Korea. His birth name was either Kim Gyeong-myeong or Jeon Gyeon-myeong, and his courtesy name was Hoe-yeon. Il-yeon is known as a prolific writer, and according to the inscription on his tombstone he wrote some 80 volumes on Buddhist topics. But today only one book of his survives: the Samguk Yusa, which is not mentioned in the inscription at all. [Source: Wikipedia].

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