¹In 1918, twelve followers, including Gahng Won-seop, Cheon Jong-seo, Yi Yong-gi, and Gahng Un-seo, planned the construction of the dojang’s shrine, led by Gahng-Eung-chil and Gahng Sa-seong. They each contributed as much as they could to the endeavor, collecting an offering of seven hundred won.²Construction commenced on November 11 and finished the following year, 1919, on the eighteenth of July, which was a leap month. After the shrine was constructed, they served Taemonim there.

³Taemonim resided at the dojang with only a few disciples, spending most of Her time tending to the farming of twenty-four plots of leased rice fields. She offered a chiseong once or twice every month and otherwise devoted Herself to meditation.⁴She always chanted mantras after the cockcrow, and the sound of Her chanting was so clear and resonant that it was heard in the central quarter of Jojong-ri Village several hundred meters away.