History & overview · every faith gets one
Sweep the dust from the heart, and live the Joyous Life.
The largest of Japan's new religions: in 1838 a farm wife, Nakayama Miki, began speaking as God the Parent, teaching that human bodies are borrowed things, minds alone are ours, and the purpose of existence is the Joyous Life swept clean of the eight mental dusts.
The founding
Its founding is bound to Nakayama Miki — 1838 CE.
What it holds
The divine. Tenri-Ō-no-Mikoto — God the Parent.
Death and after. Rebirth (denaoshi — "starting anew"); the soul returns to be reborn.