Jeung San Do is the spiritual organization founded by Ahn Un-san the Taesang Jongdosanim (“Great Supreme Dao Master”) and Ahn Gyeong-jeon the Jongdosanim (“Supreme Dao Master”) to spread the great dao of Sangjenim and Taemonim. In the years since Jeung San Do’s inception in 1974, we have grown continuously and fruitfully with over two hundred dojangs (“dao centers”) in South Korea and other countries.
Today, Jeung San Do constantly strives to convey across the world Sangjenim and Taemonim’s sacred message of the Autumn Gaebyeok and of the advent of the new heaven, earth, and humanity.
Ahn Un-san, the Taesang Jongdosanim
Ahn Un-san, the Taesang Jongdosanim of Jeung San Do, was born in Korea in 1922. Both of his parents followed Sangjenim’s teachings. In his childhood, during a two-week period of intensive meditation, he became awakened to the way that Sangjenim’s Work of Renewing Heaven and Earth was unfolding in the world, and he realized that his own purpose in life was to spread Sangjenim’s truth.
After Korea’s liberation from Japan in 1945, he founded a movement to disseminate Sangjenim’s teachings, calling it ‘Jeung San Gyo’ (“Teachings of Jeung-san”). This organization constituted the second stage of dao dissemination, the successor to Taemonim’s dao movement. In the years that followed, the Taesang Jongdosanim tirelessly gathered and taught tens of thousands of people throughout Korea. He was the first to diagram the cosmic year cycle, contextualizing the birth, growth, and maturation of human civilization. With the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, Korea entered another dark and difficult period, and the Taesang Jongdosanim disbanded his movement the following year, instructing the followers to maintain their belief. In 1954, he retreated from publicly undertaking Sangjenim’s work for twenty years, until he and Ahn Gyeong-jeon, the Jongdosanim, founded in 1974 the modern movement of Jeung San Do, the third and final major development in Sangjenim’s dao.
Over the ensuing years, the Taesang Jongdosanim authored numerous Korean-language books about Jeung San Do, the most renowned being Birth in Spring, Death in Autumn (2007).
Having completing his lifelong mandate, he left this world in 2012.
Ahn Gyeong-jeon, the Jongdosanim
Born in 1954, Ahn Gyeong-jeon, the Jongdosanim, grew up with the tradition of Sangjenim’s and Taemonim’s teachings, and he has completely devoted his life to spreading these teachings. In 1974, he and the Taesang Jongdosanim co-founded the modern Jeung San Do movement. In 1977, at age twenty-three, he experienced spiritually the great cataclysm of gaebyeok and affirmed his resolve to spread Sangjenim’s and Taemonim’s truth throughout the world. In 1984, he established Jeung San Do University, a program to develop practitioners who would spread the teachings. In 1998, he founded the Jeung San Do Research Institute, where scholars from various fields undertake research and write about Jeung San Do.
The Jongdosanim’s mission of disseminating the teachings has led him to conduct numerous lecture tours throughout South Korea, and he has also lectured in numerous other countries, including the United States, Russia, Canada, England, Australia, Japan, India, and Indonesia. Today, he heads the effort to globalize Jeung San Do by training teachers and sending them to other countries and by guiding translations of Sangjenim’s and Taemonim’s teachings.
Over the years, the Jongdosanim has authored numerous Korean-language books about Jeung San Do, two of the most renowned being Jeung San Do’s Truth (1981) and This Is Gaebyeok (1982). Moreover, he annotated and translated into the modern Korean language a collection of texts on ancient Korean history titled Hwandangogi (2012). He devoted decades of research to publishing an authoritative and comprehensive book on the great dao of Sangjenim and Taemonim, leading to the publication of the first Dojeon edition in 1992, a revised edition in 2003, and the foreign-language translations in 2004.
[Abandon] all decrepit ways of living and strive for new life. (Sangjenim, Dojeon 2:37)
Do not dwell on what has been; strive to accomplish what is to be. (Taemonim, Dojeon 11:104)