Tonghak

Flag of the Donghak Peasant Rebellion. The text reads 斥倭洋倡義 (척왜양창의, Let us wage a revolution against the Japanese and Westerners).
Tonghak
Hangul
동학
Hanja
東學
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Tonghak (Korean: 동학; Hanja: 東學; RR: Donghak; lit. 'Eastern learning') was an academic movement in Korean Neo-Confucianism founded in 1860 by Ch'oe Cheu. The Tonghak movement arose as a reaction to seohak (lit. '"Western learning"'), and called for a return to the "Way of Heaven". While Tonghak originated as a reform movement and revival of Confucian teachings, it gradually evolved into a religion known today as Cheondoism in Korea under the third patriarch Son Byong-hi.

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