Personal Details
Gang Il-Sun (1871-1909), known to his followers as JeungSan SangJeNim. SangJe (in Chinese, Shangti) is the Supreme Ruler of the Universe of religious Taoism (nim is the honorific suffix in Korean), also known as the OkhwangSangJe, the Jade Emperor (Okhwangje) of the Universe. JeungSan is Gang Il-sun’s honorific name (ho), which means Cauldron Mountain. He was born in a small town near the city of Gimje in what was then the Jeolla province of Korea, but which is today known as the North Jeolla Province after the division into North and South Jeolla provinces in 1896. Gimje ( Gimje-si) is a city in North Jeolla Province South Korea. Jeolla ( Jeolla-do in Korean formerly spelled Cholla or Chŏlla) was one of the eight provinces of Korea during the Joseon Dynasty Jeollabuk-do (North Jeolla is a province in the southwest of South Korea.
His Religion and his Movement
Jeung San Do, like Korean new religions (sinheung jonggyo, literally, newly emerged religions) in general is a syncretism of Buddhism (Bul-gyo), Confucianism (Yu-gyo), Taoism (Do-gyo), certain elements borrowed from Christianity (Gidok-gyo [Catholicism is Cheonju-gyo]), and an underlying Korean shamanism (Musok-Sinang). Jeung San Do or Jeungism (in Korean Hangul 증산도 "teaching of the mountain maturity" "teaching of maturity" is a new Far from being a haphazard borrowing, Gang Il-Sun’s syncretism was highly systematic in that only those religious elements that resonated with his millenarian worldview were selected for incorporation into his teachings.
At present there are forty-three JeungSanDo centers (dojeong) in South Korea, three in Japan, seven in the United States, one in Canada, and one in England. There are an estimated 100,000 devout followers in South Korea, where missionary activities are directed primarily towards converting university students. Their national headquarters is in the city of Daejeon not far from the Gimje area of Jeolla Province where Gang Il-sun lived. Gimje ( Gimje-si) is a city in North Jeolla Province South Korea. Jeolla ( Jeolla-do in Korean formerly spelled Cholla or Chŏlla) was one of the eight provinces of Korea during the Joseon Dynasty
In 1860 Sun Choe-jeu, a young scholar from Gyeongju, the former capital of the Silla Dynasty, concerned about the growing influence of the West, the increasing Japanese presence in Joseon, widespread corruption in government and established religion, and abuse of power by the yangban (aristocratic social class), alleged to have had a vision of SangJe (Shang-ti in Chinese), the Ruler of the Universe in religious Taoism. Gyeongju is an administrative division of South Korea and one of the most popular tourist destinations in South Korea Silla (57 BC – 935 AD was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. Sangje is the title by which the Korean people have known the Ruling God since ancient times Sun Choe-jeu became the founder of the Donghak (Eastern Learning) movement, the prototype of many subsequent Korean syncretistic new religions. Cheondoism or Chondoism (in Korean Hangul 천도교 Cheondogyo, " Religion of the Heavenly Way" is a 20th-century Donghak culminated in the unsuccessful Donghak Rebellion of 1894, which was fueled by a combination of religious fervor centering around the millennial visions of a coming "messiah", and Seoul's high taxes on rice. The Donghak Peasant Revolution was an anti-government anti- Yangban and anti-foreign uprising in 1894 in Korea which was the catalyst for the First Sino-Japanese Central to Sun Choe-jeu’s teachings was a belief in Hu-Cheon GAeByeok, the Great Opening (GAeByeok) of the Later Heaven (Hu-Cheon), the new age paradise of Donghak and later of Gang Il-sun’s millenarian vision.
SangJe allegedly promised Sun Choe-jeu that He would soon incarnate in this world to initiate a New Age. Gang Il-sun was believed by his followers to have been the fulfillment of the Donghak Promise, the incarnation of SangJe prophesied by Sun Choe-jeu. The religion of Gang Il-sun, on whose teachings JeungSanDo is based, arose in large measure from the Donghak movement. Cheondoism or Chondoism (in Korean Hangul 천도교 Cheondogyo, " Religion of the Heavenly Way" is a 20th-century
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