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Tenrikyo Doyusha Head Office
is a Japanese new religions, Japanese new religion which is neither strictly monotheism, monotheistic nor pantheistic, originating from the teachings of a 19th-century woman named Nakayama Miki, known to her followers as "Oyasama". Followers of Tenrikyo believe that God of Origin, God in Truth, known by several names including "Tsukihi," "Tenri-Ō-no-Mikoto" and "Oyagamisama" revealed divine intent through Miki Nakayama as the Shrine of God and to a lesser extent the roles of the Honseki Izo Iburi and other leaders. Tenrikyo's worldly aim is to teach and promote the Joyous Life, which is cultivated through acts of charity and mindfulness called . The primary operations of Tenrikyo today are located at Tenrikyo Church Headquarters, which supports 16,833 locally managed churches in Japan,Japanese Ministry of Education. ''Shuukyou Nenkan, Heisei 14-nen'' (宗教年鑑平成14年). 2002. the construction and maintenance of the and various community-focused organisations. It has 1.7 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenrikyo Church Headquarters
is the main headquarters of the Tenrikyo religion, located in Tenri, Nara, Tenri, Nara Prefecture, Nara, Japan. This establishment is significant to followers because it is built around the ''Jiba (Tenrikyo), Jiba'', the spot where followers believe God (known in Tenrikyo as Tenri-O-no-Mikoto) conceived humankind. Organization Hierarchy The organization of Tenrikyo Church Headquarters consists primarily of the headquarters proper (本部 ''honbu''), grand churches (大教会 ''daikyōkai''), branch churches (分教会 ''bunkyōkai''), and dioceses (教区 ''kyōku''). Under the management of the main headquarters is a dual organizational structure, such that the grand churches and branch churches minister to adherents genealogically while the dioceses minister to adherents geographically. At the top of the church hierarchy is the ''Shinbashira (Tenrikyo), Shinbashira,'' who is defined as the "spiritual and administrative leader" of Tenrikyo Church Headquarters. Many of the cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daehancheolligyo
Daehan Cheolligyo (, ) is a Tenrikyo-based ''Japanese new religions, Shinshūkyō'' (Japanese new religion) that is based in South Korea. It is one of the two South Korean Tenrikyo organizations. Daehan Cheolligyo is known for adopting more localized customs to harmonize with the general post-Korea under Japanese rule, Japanese colonial cultural atmosphere; the other one is Cheolligyo Han'gukgyodan that still preserves the Japanese Sect Shinto-affiliated cultural aspects in terms of religious practices and direct affiliation with the Tenrikyo Church Headquarters. Its headquarters are currently located in southern Uijeongbu right next to Mangwolsa station of Seoul Subway Line 1 and 's 1st campus. History The Korean branch of Tenrikyo had to face the public backlashes of Anti-Japanese sentiment in Korea, anti-Japanese sentiment after the surrender of Japan due to Tenrikyo being a religion of native Japanese origin. This nationwide circumstance had created an environment in which th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axis Mundi
In astronomy, is the Latin term for the axis of Earth between the celestial poles. In a geocentric coordinate system, this is the axis of rotation of the celestial sphere. Consequently, in ancient Greco-Roman astronomy, the is the axis of rotation of the planetary spheres within the classical geocentric model of the cosmos. In 20th-century comparative mythology, the term – also called the cosmic axis, world axis, world pillar, center of the world, or world tree – has been greatly extended to refer to any mythological concept representing "the connection between Heaven and Earth" or the "higher and lower realms". Mircea Eliade introduced the concept in the 1950s. closely relates to the mythological concept of the (navel) of the world or cosmos. Items adduced as examples of the by comparative mythologists include plants (notably a tree but also other types of plants such as a vine or stalk), a mountain, a column of smoke or fire, or a product of human manufactur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanrodai
The ('stand for the heavenly dew', or ) is a sacred entity in Tenrikyo and Tenrikyo-derived Japanese new religions, including (but not limited to) Honmichi, Honbushin, Kami Ichijokyo, Tenri Sanrinkō, and Daehan Cheolligyo. Tenrikyo, as well as a few of its schisms such as , considers the kanrodai to be a physical pillar. However, later Tenrikyo-derived schisms such as Honmichi, Kami Ichijokyo, and Tenri Sanrinkō give a new interpretation in which the kanrodai is embodied as a living person. Honbushin has installed a small stone kanrodai on Mount Kami (Okayama), Kamiyama, a mountain in Okayama, and also recognizes a human kanrodai who is the son of its founder Ōnishi Tama. The first kanrodai was built in 1873 by Iburi Izō at Nakayama Miki's residence. Origin The concept of the kanrodai was first taught by Nakayama Miki, the foundress of Tenrikyo, in 1868. In 1873, she instructed her disciple Iburi Izō, who was a carpenter by trade, to make a wooden kanrodai. Before the locatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oyasato-yakata
is the main headquarters of the Tenrikyo religion, located in Tenri, Nara, Japan. This establishment is significant to followers because it is built around the '' Jiba'', the spot where followers believe God (known in Tenrikyo as Tenri-O-no-Mikoto) conceived humankind. Organization Hierarchy The organization of Tenrikyo Church Headquarters consists primarily of the headquarters proper (本部 ''honbu''), grand churches (大教会 ''daikyōkai''), branch churches (分教会 ''bunkyōkai''), and dioceses (教区 ''kyōku''). Under the management of the main headquarters is a dual organizational structure, such that the grand churches and branch churches minister to adherents genealogically while the dioceses minister to adherents geographically. At the top of the church hierarchy is the ''Shinbashira,'' who is defined as the "spiritual and administrative leader" of Tenrikyo Church Headquarters. Many of the current grand churches were established by missionaries around the turn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joyous Life
In Tenrikyo, the Joyous Life (''yōki gurashi'', or ) is the ideal taught by spiritual leaders and pursued through charity and abstention from greed, selfishness, hatred, anger and arrogance. Theologically, the Joyous Life functions as the purpose of human existence preordained by God during the creation of human beings and as the means for the salvation of humankind. Etymology The term "Joyous Life" refers to several related terms that appear in Tenrikyo scriptures and historical documents in the original Japanese. In the ''Ofudesaki'', the term is written as ''yōki yusan'' (よふきゆさん), while in the '' Osashizu,'' it is written as ''yōki asobi'' (陽気遊び) and ''yōki gurashi'' (陽気ぐらし). Early outlines of the Tenrikyo teachings use the terms ''yōkinaru yusan asobi'' (よふきなるゆさんあすび) and ''yōki yusan'' (陽気遊参). The characters that make up ''yōki yusan'' and ''gurashi''/''kurashi'' are as follows: * ''Yō'' () is "positive", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Izo Iburi
''IZO'' is a 2004 Japanese surrealist period horror film directed by Takashi Miike. The main character of the film is Izo Okada (1832–1865), the historical samurai and assassin in 19th-century Japan who was tortured and executed by beheading in Tosa. Izo appeared previously in Hideo Gosha's ''Hitokiri'' (1969), then played by Shintaro Katsu. However, Miike's portrayal of the character (or rather his spirit) transcends reality (and time and space) and is more of a surrealist exposé of Izo's exceedingly bloody yet philosophical encounters in an afterlife heavy on symbolism, occasionally interrupted by stock footage of World War II accompanied by acid-folk singer Kazuki Tomokawa on guitar. Kazuya Nakayama plays Izo and the many characters he encounters on his journey include figures played by Takeshi Kitano and Bob Sapp. Cast * Kazuya Nakayama as Okada Izo * Kaori Momoi * Ryuhei Matsuda * Ryôsuke Miki as Hampeita Takechi * Yuya Uchida as Spirit * Masumi Okada as Polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenri-Ō-no-Mikoto
In Tenrikyo, God is a single divine being and creator of the entire universe. God in Tenrikyo is most commonly referred to as ''Oyagami'' (親神) (), ''Tenri-Ō-no-Mikoto'' (天理王命) (), and ''Tsukihi'' (月日) (). The first two characters in the Japanese kanji for Tenri-Ō-no-Mikoto are 天理, where 天 refers to heaven or divinity, and 理 refers to reason or knowledge, thus "Tenri" (天理) refers to divine or heavenly knowledge, and in a sense adds a divine nature to truth itself whereas "天理" also means "natural law" or its pseudonym, "divine law." The English name most frequently used to refer to Tenri-Ō-no-Mikoto outside of ritual is "God the Parent"; in Japanese, the equivalent common names are ''Oyagami'' (親神) and ''Oyagami-sama'' (親神様). In Tenrikyo, God has no gender. Tenrikyo followers vary in their understanding of this creator, from the early understanding of spirit (''kami'', god/deity) through the underlying natural causality (''Tsukihi'', m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pantheistic
Pantheism can refer to a number of Philosophy, philosophical and Religion, religious beliefs, such as the belief that the universe is God, or panentheism, the belief in a non-corporeal divine intelligence or God out of which the universe arisesAnn Thomson; Bodies of Thought: Science, Religion, and the Soul in the Early Enlightenment, 2008, page 54. as opposed to the corporeal gods of religion such as Yahweh. The former idea came from Church theologians who, in attacking the latter form of pantheism, described pantheism as the belief that God is the material universe itself.Worman, J. H., "Pantheism", in ''Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, Volume 1'', John McClintock, James Strong (Eds), Harper & Brothers, 1896, pp. 616–624. Under some conceptions of pantheism, the universe is thought to be an immanent deity, still expanding and creating, which has existed since the beginning of time. Pantheism can include the belief that everything constitute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese New Religions
Japanese new religions are new religious movements established in Japan. In Japanese, they are called or . Japanese scholars classify all religious organizations founded since the middle of the 19th century as "new religions"; thus, the term refers to a great diversity and number of organizations. Most came into being in the mid-to-late twentieth century and are influenced by much older traditional religions including Buddhism and Shinto. Foreign influences include Christianity, the Bible, and the writings of Nostradamus. Before World War II In the 1860s, Japan began to experience great social turmoil and rapid modernization. As social conflicts emerged in this last decade of the Edo period, known as the Bakumatsu period, some new religious movements appeared. Among them were Tenrikyo, Kurozumikyo, and Oomoto, sometimes called () or "old new religions", which were directly influenced by Shinto (the State Shinto, state religion) and shamanism. The social tension continued to gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenrikyo Doyusha
Tenrikyo Doyusha (天理教道友社 ''Tenrikyō Dōyūsha'') is the official publisher of Tenrikyo Church Headquarters, disseminating news, information, and doctrinal materials related to Tenrikyo. It is located in Tenri, Nara Prefecture, Japan, within a few hundred meters of Tenri Station. History Tenrikyo Doyusha was founded on August 4, 1891, following a direction from spiritual leader Iburi Izō requesting that "a periodical should be published under the auspices of the Tenrikyo Church." The periodical ''Michi no tomo'' (みちのとも "Friends of the Path") was first published in December 28 of the same year. During the Meiji and Taisho periods, ''Michi no tomo'' was the only periodical issued by Tenrikyo Doyusha. On November 18, 1930, the first issue of ''Tenri Jiho'' (天理時報 "Tenri Times") was published by Tenri Central Library Tenri Central Library (天理大学附属天理図書館 ''Tenri Daigaku Fuzoku Tenri Toshokan'') is the library of Tenri University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
