Founders & Teachers

Jeung San Do: The Dao of Renewing Heaven, Earth, and Humanity

Sangjenim is regarded as the Father of the Dao, and Taemonim as its Mother. As the parents of the Dao, they established and nurtured a community of practitioners who continue the work of renewal in the world.

Jeung San Do (“the Dao of Jeung-san”) is understood as the third and final stage in the unfolding of the Dao of Sangjenim and Taemonim. It refers to the organized body through which their teachings are studied, practiced, preserved, and shared with humanity.

The Dao lineage and authority that Sangjenim conferred upon Taemonim passed in succession to Ahn Un-san, His Holiness the Taesang Jongdosanim, and Ahn Gyeong-jeon, His Holiness the Jongdosanim, who currently leads Jeung San Do as its highest authority. In 1945, the Taesang Jongdosanim founded the first movement to spread Sangjenim’s teachings following Korea’s liberation. In 1974, he and the Jongdosanim together established the modern organization of Jeung San Do, formally inaugurating its mission for the present era.

That mission is clear: to spread the teachings of Gaebyeok—the great transformation of cosmic and human order—and to open the path toward the Paradise of Immortality, the civilization of the Later Heaven in which humanity will live in harmony, health, and unity under the renewed order of Heaven and Earth. This mission has taken Jeung San Do from its roots in Korea to communities across the globe, through lecture tours, teacher training, publications, and translations of Sangjenim and Taemonim’s teaching into nine languages.

Jeung San Do does not understand itself merely as a religious organization. It is the continuation of True Eastern Learning—carrying the teachings of Sangjenim and Taemonim forward through the threshold of Gaebyeok and into the new civilization of Cosmic Autumn.