Tenrikyo

Tradition·Founded 1838 CE·est. ~1 million worldwide

Shinto → Tenrikyo

Branch

Figures

who it looks to — gods, spirits, ancestors; some rooms are empty on principle All 1 →
G God the Parent. Tenri-Ō-no-Mikoto, who lent humanity its bodies and waits for the children to sweep their hearts and live joyously. Domain Creator and sustainer, parent of humankindStanding Worshipped as the parent whose children are all humanity Meet them — context →

Core Tenets

3 — a sample of the center, never the sum All 3 →
The shared center — held across the tradition
The body is a thing lent. Kashimono-karimono: bodies are borrowed from God the Parent; only the mind is one's own — and therefore one's responsibility. Go deeper — context →
Eight dusts settle on the heart. Miserliness, covetousness, hatred, self-love and their kin — not sins to be punished but dust to be swept, daily. Go deeper — context →
The Joyous Life is the purpose. God the Parent created humanity to see it live joyously — gloom is not piety here; it is the problem. Go deeper — context →

Cosmos & Afterlife

how reality is built, and what follows death
After death

Rebirth (denaoshi — "starting anew"); the soul returns to be reborn

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