A Japanese faith founded in 1838 on the revelation to Nakayama Miki, teaching the joyful life God the Parent intends for all humankind.
Tenrikyo began in 1838 in Shoyashiki village, when God the Parent, Tenri-O-no-Mikoto, was said to have taken Nakayama Miki as a shrine and spoken through her. Its teaching holds that human beings borrow their bodies from God and owe a life of gratitude and mutual help, the Joyous Life, centered on the Jiba, the place of creation, in the city of Tenri. For much of its early life the state counted it among the sects of Shinto.
Sources
Primary
- Tenrikyo Church Headquarters, The Doctrine of Tenrikyo (1949).
Secondary
- Harry Thomsen, The New Religions of Japan (1963).
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