Case file · Apparition / miracle
Choe Je-u hears the Lord of Heaven
On 5 April 1860, at Yongdam pavilion near Gyeongju, Choe Je-u fell ill and heard the voice of Sangje, the Lord of Heaven, giving him a talisman and an incantation.
1860 CE · 35.92, 129.16 · status: account
The account
He founded Donghak ('Eastern Learning'), was executed in 1864, and his movement fed the 1894 peasant war. It survives as Cheondogyo.