Ahn Gyeong-jeon, His Holiness the Jongdosanim

 

 

Ahn Gyeong-jeon, His Holiness the Jongdosanim, was born in 1954 and grew up within the living tradition of Sangjenim and Taemonim’s teaching, to which he has devoted his entire life. In 1974, he and His Holiness the Taesang Jongdosanim, Ahn Un-san, co-founded the modern movement of Jeung San Do—the third and final stage in the unfolding of Sangjenim’s Dao.

In 1977, at the age of twenty-four, the Jongdosanim underwent a profound spiritual experience in which he directly experienced the great transformation of Gaebyeok. This experience deepened and confirmed his resolve to devote his life to spreading Sangjenim’s and Taemonim’s truth throughout the world—a commitment from which he has never wavered.

To carry out this mission, the Jongdosanim has built the institutional foundations necessary to preserve and transmit the teachings for future generations. In 1984, he established Jeung San Do University, a program to cultivate practitioners capable of spreading the teachings with depth and understanding. In 1998, he founded the Jeung San Do Research Institute, where scholars from diverse fields undertake research and publication on Jeung San Do’s teachings and their relationship to history, civilization, and the present era.

The crowning achievement of the Jongdosanim’s decades of work is the Dojeon—the sacred scripture and foundational textbook of Jeung San Do. After more than thirty years of rigorous research and fieldwork, traveling throughout Korea to gather written records and oral testimonies from the disciples of Sangjenim and Taemonim, their descendants, and their students, he published the Dojeon in 1992, with subsequent editions to follow. This monumental work of historical recovery stands as the most comprehensive and authoritative account of Sangjenim’s and Taemonim’s supreme Dao ever assembled.

The Jongdosanim has also authored numerous books in Korean on Jeung San Do, bringing the teachings to a wide readership and continuing his ongoing work of research and writing.

His mission of spreading the teachings has taken him across Korea and throughout the world. He has conducted lecture tours in the United States, Canada, England, Australia, Japan, India, and Indonesia, and today he leads the effort to globalize Jeung San Do—training teachers, sending them to communities across the globe, and overseeing the translation of Sangjenim and Taemonim’s teaching into nine languages.