Jeung San Do: The Living Lineage of Eastern Learning

The Second Revival: The Cosmic Year Revealed

Following Korea’s liberation in 1945, a new chapter in the history of Jeung San Do opened under Ahn Un-san, His Holiness the Taesang Jongdosanim, who established the institutional foundation of the tradition and preserved its teachings through a period of profound national upheaval.

In 1946, the Taesang Jongdosanim accomplished something with no precedent in human history: he drew and publicly proclaimed the diagram of the Cosmic Year, making the governing framework of Sangjenim’s Dao accessible to all people for the first time. This diagram presents the universal cycle of Heaven and Earth as four great seasons:

“The cosmic year spans four cosmic seasons: spring and summer forming the Early Heaven, and autumn and winter forming the Later Heaven. During the cosmic year, humanity and its civilization arise in the cosmic spring, flourish in the cosmic summer, and attain maturation in the cosmic autumn. The cosmic winter is a period of rest.”

This single diagram represents the conclusion of the cosmic philosophy underlying all of human history—a complete and luminous map of where humanity has come from, where it stands today, and what lies ahead. For the first time, anyone could understand the whole arc of civilization within a single framework.

 

The Third Revival: The Dojeon and the Globalization of the Dao

Succeeding this history, Ahn Gyeong-jeon, His Holiness the Jongdosanim—currently the highest leader of Jeung San Do—has pioneered the third revival period of Dao affairs.

Over more than thirty years of extensive research and fieldwork, the Jongdosanim personally compiled written records and oral testimonies from the disciples of Sangjenim and Taemonim, their descendants, and their students, and published the Dojeon—the sacred scripture and foundational textbook of Jeung San Do. This decades-long labor of historical recovery stands as a testament to Jeung San Do’s commitment to preserving the authentic teachings of Sangjenim and Taemonim for all of humanity.

The Jongdosanim has also led the effort to bring Jeung San Do’s teachings to the global community through extensive lecture tours across the world, the training and deployment of teachers internationally, and the translation of Sangjenim and Taemonim’s teachings into nine languages—English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Taiwanese, Indonesian, and Japanese.

 

The Message of Our Time

The most important message that Jeung San Do, the True Eastern Learning, has been conveying to the world is this:

“This is the time when the universe closes down the season of Cosmic Spring and Cosmic Summer and enters into the universe of Autumn. Now is the new era of the history of Cosmic Autumn.”

The approaching time of Gaebyeok is when the universe, civilization, and humanity will be fundamentally reborn. It is not a message of fear but a message of hope—that humanity will encounter a new world, renewed at the level of the cosmic order itself.

 

The Culture of True Eastern Learning

This is the historical lineage of Eastern Learning and the True Eastern Learning that continues to open the pathway for the culture of the Taeeulju Mantra and the culture of Taeul (太一)—the primordial and archetypal spiritual culture of humanity. Through these practices, Jeung San Do offers the world the essence of Eastern spiritual culture, recovered and transmitted for the age of Cosmic Autumn.

Jeung San Do, the True Eastern Learning, is not a religion. It is a new spiritual movement introducing the daily life culture that all humanity is called to embody in the era of Cosmic Autumn—a culture grounded in alignment with the rhythms of Heaven and Earth, the practice of the Taeeulju, and the principles of Sangsaeng.

That is why Jeung San Do is also called Mugeuk Daedo (無極大道)—the Supreme Dao of Mugeuk: the boundless Way that opens the path of renewal and transformation for every human being at this decisive turning point in history