Word info

Cheondoism

Noun

Meaning

Cheondoism (uncountable)

A 20th-century Korean religion, incorporating elements of shamanism, based on the 19th-century Donghak movement founded by Ch'oe Che-u and codified under Son Pyŏng-Hi.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Related terms

Examples

In the early 1970s, he established his own cult, Yeongsegyo, literally “Eternal Life,” by combining tenets of Buddhism, Christianity and Korea’s indigenous Confucian-shamanist movement, Cheondoism. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms