Nah, Jeong-gil. “The Study for Cheonbugyeong.” Journal of New Religions 16 (April 2007): 45-93. 

Abstract

This study pronouncement has ‘Daejonggyo’ and “Cheonbugyeong,’ but the space is too broad and difficult to study. So, I am going to study of only the contents of ‘Cheonbugyeong’ from their birth (about 9,000 years ago).

The contents of Cheonbugyeong has the greatest and longest tradition in Korean nations but only 81 letter provided for scripture.

6,000 year period that ‘Baedal nation period’ disclosed the ‘Nokdo letter’ for the first letter of the human beings. After 4,000 years past, they were recorded by ‘Jeon Seo’ at the time of Dangun era.

After the end of Silla Age, ‘Go-un (Chi-won Choe) reformed those letters. In the Dangi-3230^th’ (AD 897: Jeonsa) Hyogong King of the Silla 1^st year (Balhae Gyeongwang 28^th year) carved this letters on the rock-wall of the Myohang Mountain.

In 1917, they sent those letters to ‘Daejonggyo’ which was forming under the name of ‘Dangun-gyo.’ From this time, it become a valuable real public scripture.

In addition to this, there were explanation for ‘Cheonbugyeong’ in the analysis records of spiritual philosophy’ written by Jeon Byung-hoon (1857-1927) in 1919. At the same time, Explanation records for ‘Cheonbugyeong’ were also provided by Kim Tack-young (1850-1927).

In this respect, it is our very important problem to review more records in order to illustrating about true facts.

‘Daejonggyo’ took long time to understand the ‘Cheonbugyeong’ as scripture. And publicly accepted it in June, 1975 under the decision which provided by religion meeting of the ‘Daejonggyo’ platform and it has come to be continued up to this date.

It is our main subject to find out true and correct explanation for the ‘Cheonbugyeong’ beyond of limitation throughout our study and review.