ps: Tenrikyo is one of the new religions in Japan that originally belonged to the Shinto system of Japanese sects and later became a self-reliant religion, founded by a woman from Shoyashiki Village, Yamabe County, Yamato Province (present-day Mishima Town, Tenri City, Nara Prefecture). On the morning of April 18, 1798, in the 10th year of Kansei (1798), Nakayama Miki was born in Samada, Yamato Province, to Maekawa Hanshichi Masanobu and his mother Tsutoko, and at the age www.biquge.info of thirteen, he married into the rich peasant Nakayama Zenbei of the Nakayama family in Shoyashiki Village, Yamato Province's Yamabe River (now Mishima Town, Tenri City, Nara Prefecture).

1. Tenrikyo religion

Tenrikyo is one of the new religions in Japan that originally belonged to the Shinto system of Japanese sects and later became its own religion, and was founded by a woman from Shoyashiki Village, Yamabe County, Yamato Province (present-day Mishima Town, Tenri City, Nara Prefecture). Nakayama Miki was born on the morning of April 18, 1798, in the 10th year of Kansei (1798) in Sanmadada, Yamato Province, with a father of Maekawa Hanshichi Masana and a mother of silk; At the age of thirteen, he married into the rich peasant Nakayama Zenbei of the Nakayama family in Shoyashiki Village, Yamabe Gunabe County, Yamato Province (present-day Mishima Town, Tenri City, Nara Prefecture), and had a son and five daughters. Nakayama believed in Buddhism when she was a child, and followed her father Maekawa as an ardent believer in the Pure Land sect, so she often had the ambition of becoming a monk and escaping the world to serve her parents. On October 23, the ninth year of Tianbao, the eldest son was seriously ill, and the cultivator Shibei was invited to pray for the eldest son's peace, and the beautiful girl also sat in it. On October 26, 1838, when she was forty-one years old, she claimed to have been suspended by God, and to practice the initiation of religion as her vocation, and consciously became a religion in order to achieve her ordination. She claimed to have received a revelation from the god of her parents, "Heavenly Principle Nuo Migodo" (Heavenly Principle King's Order): "I am the primordial god of the universe and the true god of all worlds." This house has a cause for the beginning, and now it has come to the world to save mankind. I want to make Miki my shrine. The day after tomorrow was designated as the founding day, and it is said that it was due to a sudden incident. Family and friends could not agree at all. After three days and three nights of defense, it was decided to dedicate the miki to the parents as a shrine in accordance with the will of the gods. After becoming the shrine of the moon and sun, Miki Nakayama was honored by the sect as the "godfather". After the establishment of the Tenri Sect, he used spells and runes to heal and midwife, and at the same time spread the belief in "Tianli King's Destiny" with his family, so he became known as Tianli Sect.

The sect taught Zumi Kiko not only to teach the earth song of the sacred dance, a kayaki song; At the same time, the divine will of the parent god is written in a pen. This is the "Imperial Pen First", a total of 1,700 poems. In the 8th year of the Meiji era (1875), the original location was determined, indicating the place where mankind was born. He also urged people to practice the holy dance as soon as possible.

In the 50 years since the founding of the church, Nakayama Miki's experience has been called "the way of the ancestors". The example of the Patriarch has also become the criterion for the Church to devote itself to the path of salvation, therefore. The followers of the sect also respectfully called Nakayama Miki "the mother of exemplars". The religion believes that the Patriarch has disappeared because of this. It is all for the sake of the eagerness to grow up the children of God's mercy of their parents. According to the teachings of the religion, the religion believes that although the followers cannot see the figure of the patriarch, she still remains in the Yuan Shi Mansion and protects all the human beings in the world. The followers of the sect call this "the principle of eternal life of the ancestors". In fact, the religion has been banned since the death of Nakayama Miki, and can only be used for underground activities. In 1887, it was even banned by the Meiji government at that time, but during the Sino-Japanese War in 14 years, the sect leader donated the 10,000 yuan raised to the military government at that time as military expenses, so it was favored by the Japanese military government. In the eighteenth year of the Meiji era, he finally received the attention of the Shinto Bureau. Grant the establishment of the Shinto Tenri Religion; Twenty-one years later, the Tenri Church was approved for inclusion in Japan's Shinto system, and the religion was recognized. Only then can Tenrikyo be able to carry out public activities. By the 24th year of the Meiji era, Tenrikyo had been elevated to the level of a first-class church under the direct jurisdiction of the Shinto Honku. In the course of its development, it was constantly suppressed by the government and opposed by Japanese Buddhism. Since the 32nd year of the Meiji era, the Tenrikyo religion has carried out five "** petitions", and finally in the 41st year, it was recognized by the authorities as a sect of Shinto and achieved ** status. Between the two world wars, Tenrikyo further attracted a large number of peasants, merchants, clerks, housewives, and other middle and lower classes of society to join the religion and spread overseas. During the Second World War, because Japan's 18** constitution clearly stipulates that Shinto is a tool of the Japanese government, the religion has followed the Japanese militarist colonization policy to Northeast China and other places, and also established "Tianli Village" in the local area, so it has been unpopular in China until 1946, when the Japanese emperor dissolved the state Shinto, the religion re-developed and restored the spirit of the founding of the religion. In 1952, the religion became a religious corporation, and in 1970 it became a ** religion that broke away from the Shinto Federation and became a religion that preached to other countries. By the end of 1984, the church had more than 1,600 churches, more than 21,000 missionary centers, 170,000 religious professionals, and about 1.76 million believers. There are also nearly 200 overseas churches around the world.

The holy place of the religion is called the "place of origin", that is, the place where the name of the god is bestowed on the god Iono Migodo. The Parents, the Fathers, and the Origin are the same principle, and only according to this Principle can we move towards the path of a happy life. In order to cherish the ancestors, the Tenrikyo religion holds the annual festival of the ancestors every ten years. This is because the religion believes that in order to please the living patriarchs, everyone must strive to practice the teachings and devote themselves to the path of salvation in order to realize a well-being world, which is the meaning of the patriarchal sacrifice.

2. The Mandate of the Heavenly King

"Tenri King's Order" is the general name of the ten gods in the Tenrikyo faith, which has the meaning of a monotheistic meaning, and is also called "Parent God". The doctrine holds that the world and human beings were created by God the Parent, and that people must recognize God's grace, happily engage in daily "sacred labor," cooperate with each other, love each other, dissolve the karma of previous lives, achieve a "happy life," and ultimately achieve the "happy world" desired by God the Parent. The basic texts are the "Mihara Den" (lyrics sung during spiritual activities), the "Gobizen" (a 1,711 waka songs that record "divine revelations" and were written by Nakayama Miki along with the previous book), the Gojitu (a collection of sayings by Nakayama Miki and another leader, Izumi Izo), and the Tenrikyo Canon (translated into Chinese in 1956) compiled by the Tenrikyo Headquarters in 1949 to adapt to the new post-war situation.

The Tenrikyo has the "True Pillar" who inherits the lineage of the ancestors as the supreme leader, and sets up a "table leader" to manage the missionary and organizational work. The current third-generation "True Pillar" is Zhongshan Shanwei, and the "Table Commander" is Shimizu Kunio. Its religious activities revolve around a vertical system of "headquarters-large churches-branch churches". Headquartered in the hometown of Nakayama Miki, Mishima Town, Tenri City, Nara Prefecture, the shrine, the ancestral hall, and the ancestral shrine are built, and the "Gan Terrace" is built in the center of the shrine, which is a worship center dedicated to the "Tenri King's Mandate". The day of Nakayama Miki's founding and death (known as "invisibility") is the main anniversary of Tenrikyo Buddhism. The headquarters publishes five newspapers and periodicals, including the Tenri Shimboo, and has a complete set of educational institutions from kindergarten to university, as well as libraries and reference halls (museums), as well as hospitals, publishing houses, research institutes, and specialized schools for training church personnel.

2. Taiwan Tianli Church

It was founded in 1938 by the Japanese envoy Nakayama. In the first six years, he was introduced to Taiwan with Japanese immigrants, mainly in Taipei and Chiayi. Most of the believers were Japanese, and they were banned by the Japanese occupation authorities; It was not until 1908 that the Tenrikyo Church was approved by the government to establish an official church in Japan, and the ban on the Tenrikyo Church in Taiwan was lifted, but few local people in Taiwan joined the Church. After Japan's surrender, many clergy were repatriated, and church activities came to a standstill. In 1962, Japanese missionaries went to Taiwan again to resume missionary activities, and gradually Chinese joined in. In December 1971, it was approved to formally establish the "China Tianli Religious Association". According to statistics at the end of December 1997, there were 145 churches and missionary centers in Taiwan, with 22,000 believers and 420 clergy, including 30 foreigners. The headquarters of the Tenrikyo Church in Japan has set up the "Taiwan Missionary Office" in Taiwan, which publishes the monthly magazine "Correspondence of the Taiwan Missionary Office", the director of which is dispatched from Japan to be responsible for academic affairs, and the chairman of the "China Tenrikyo Association" is in charge of the affairs of the conference. Followers of the Tenri Sect regard Nakayama Miki as their ancestor, and regard the former residence of Nakayama Miki in Mishima Town, Tenri City, Nara Prefecture, Japan, as a sacred place, and there are often believers in Taiwan who go to Japan to "return to Japan," and in 1986, during the "Centennial Festival" of Nakayama Miki, the number of people reached 600. The Chinese Culture University in Taiwan and Tenri University in Japan have established a sister school and send professors to give lectures to each other. (To be continued......)

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