The Entreaty of All the Ancient Spirits of Sages, Buddhas, and Bodhisattvas

The Entreaty of All the Ancient Spirits of Sages, Buddhas, and Bodhisattvas *Dojeon 2:27

6 “While at the Maitreya Shrine, I bestowed upon Choe Su-un a heavenly mandate and spiritual inspiration to enable him to establish My boundless dao.

7 However, he failed to transcend the confines of Confucianism and reveal the true dharma, which would have laid a path to the way of spirits and a new civilization and eventually brought forth the true resplendence of My boundless dao.

8 “I therefore finally withdrew the heavenly mandate and spiritual inspiration from Choe Su-un in 1864, and in 1871, I incarnated into the world Myself.

9 I am the ‘Sangje’ revealed in Donggyeongdaejeon and in Su-un’s lyrics.”

 

崔水雲 (1824~1864) : Choe Su-un (=Choe Je-u)

Choe Su-un is the founder and head of Eastern Learning (Donghak), a popular religious and social movement of nineteenth-century Korea. He proclaimed the coming of the Later Heaven Gaebyeok and that Sangjenim would one day advent in Korea.