History of the Songgwang-sa lecture school is not too old. People studying the Stupa have been around for a long time, but the time of gathering into Songgwang-sa with the name of the lecture school is about 1980. As it is perhaps a Zen-oriented temple to make itself famous for

Mokwoogapoong, it may be another reason that it is considered undesirable to study the Stupa.

It laid the groundwork of the lecture school by installing the lecturer, Baekwoon Jiheung, staying in Beomeosa in 1980. During the period from 1984 to 1993 when the succeeding lecturer, Woonsung Senghee, is in charge, it began to turn out graduates and became a lecture school as a professional educational institution.

Thereafter with the power of vow of the lecturer, Dowon Jiwoon, who inaugurated as the head of the lecturers in September 1993, the lecture school was revitalized and stabilized. As it was accepted as a good temple for study, many students gathered. Now more than 70 students are practicing and making an effort. Moreover, it performs its role faithfully as the fundamental educational institution Jogyejong advocates and places itself as the model lecture school leading the other lecture schools.