• Journal of the Daesoon Academy of Sciences
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• v.20
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• pp.25-66
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• 2009

This paper checked the trend of exiting researches on Jeungsan's thought and investigated the academic problems of Daesun's thought as an basic work to form the deep academic discussions on Daesun's thought. Grouping into the scriptures of Jeungsangyo, its theses and papers, I synthesized the present state of researches. In the case of papers, I divided into three periods, before 1990, 1990s' and after 2000. Grouping into three fields, the periods, the researchers and the themes, I investigated the characteristics of the researches of Jeungsan's thought through the main scriptures, theses and papers, and reports of actual state. In conclusion, I brought up the ten problems about academic questions of Daesun's thought.

• Journal of the Daesoon Academy of Sciences
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• v.20
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• pp.67-94
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• 2009

Kang Jeung-san whose real name is Kang Il-soon was a Korean born thinker who thought himself as Shangti(上帝). It is told that he made a Great Tour(大巡) upon this world. His thought was affected by Asian traditional philosophy such as Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism. He founded a religious body, called Jeung-san-Gyo which could be formed a syncretism of East Asian traditional thoughts. We have to survey Asian traditional thoughts in order to understand Kang Jeung-san's religious thinking. According to the Great Tour Scripture(大巡典經), he have read Confucian moral books, holy Sutra of Buddha and the books of Daoism. In the field of Confucianism, he stressed upon the Book of Changes (Zou-yi; 周易). And for Buddhism, he showed great concern on a monk, Jin-mook(震黙) who lived 15th century in Chosun Dynasty. Jeung-san Shangti followed Daoistic way when he performed religious ritual. In case of performance, he was compared as a great Shaman who wanted to save the world. And the most typical ritual was called public business of Heaven and Earth(天地公事). He showed a great scale while he was touring the world in space. The most important thing, however, is to overcome the localization which seems still prevailing doctrine of the Jeung-san thought. For this, the followers of Jeung-san-Gyo should study world philosophy and accept the modernity so as to broaden Jeung-san thought to the rest of the world.