Dictionary

Tenrikyo en · PROPN

Etymology

From Japanese 天理教 (Tenrikyō).

Meanings

1. A monotheistic religion in Japan founded by Nakayama Miki in 1838.
   • Tenrikyo holds that selfish thoughts cast a shadow over our lives, and that illness results from this self-centeredness; by correcting mistaken, self-centered use of their minds, people can receive the blessings of good health. 2000, Avram Davidson, Everybody Has Somebody in Heaven, Devora Publishing, →ISBN, page 284:
   • Several miles away, in a modern American city, is a church of Tenrikyo, the “Religion of Heavenly Wisdom,” one of the so-called new religions of modern Japan. The arrangement of its altar is similar to that of Shinto, […] But whereas Shinto worships many deities, Tenrikyo has but one, the Creator of the world, Oyagami “God the Parent.” 2009, Robert S. Ellwood, Mark A. Csikszentmihalyi, “East Asian Religions in Today's America”, in J. Neusner, editor, World Religions in America, 4th edition, Westminster John Knox Press, →ISBN, page 215:
   • Ever since Tenrikyo began spreading its faith in the mid-nineteenth century, it had been under constant persecution from the government. 2017, Akihiro Yamakura, “Transnational Contexts of Tenrikyo Mission in Korea”, in Emily Anderson, editor, Belief and Practice in Imperial Japan and Colonial Korea, Springer, →ISBN, page 155:
   • Tenrikyo has a long history of giving birth to other independent movements, some of which have in turn issued in their own set of offshoots. In the case of Tenrikyo, both structural and doctrinal elements have contributed to the development of derivative movements. 2009, Robert Kisala, “Schisms in Japanese new religious movements”, in James R. Lewis, Sarah M. Lewis, editors, Sacred Schisms, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 85:

Forms

Deriveds

Tenrikyoist

Synonyms

Tenriism

Translations (5)

fi tenrikyō (monotheistic religion of Japan) · pt Tenrikyo (monotheistic religion of Japan) · ja 天理教 (monotheistic religion of Japan) · cmn 天理教 (monotheistic religion of Japan) · pl tenri-kyō (monotheistic religion of Japan)