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Students’ Spring Pilgrimage to Jiba Draws 4,700
On March 28, Tenrikyo Students Association, with the support of the Student Advisory Committee, held its annual convention, “Students’ Spring Pilgrimage to Jiba,” on the theme “Let’s return to Jiba with friends, brimming over with joy.” Over 4,700 high school, junior college, and university students gathered in the Inner Courtyard…
Seminar Held for New Missionaries Entering Missionary Houses
A seminar for new missionaries entering missionary houses was held at the Home of the Parent on March 29 and 30. This year 76 missionaries (57 male and 19 female), ranging in age from 19 to 67, entered missionary houses in 17 different locations, including one in America. They were…
Education and Nurture Department Established
On April 1, the Education and Nurture Department was tentatively established under the jurisdiction of Tenrikyo Administrative Headquarters. The establishment of this new department aims to expand and improve Church Headquarters’ education support system that is intended to benefit all followers including church head ministers and young people. Especially since…
2002 English Class of Shuyoka
The 28th English class of Shuyoka (the three-month Spiritual Development Course) began in the Home of the Parent on April 1. This year, there are four participants: Karl Jackson from England, Junus from Indonesia, Medea Santiago Raborar from the Philippines, and Chad Makoto Hamada from Hawaii. Shuyoka offers the English…
Tenrikyo Terminology—Excerpt from Tenrikyo Jiten: “Living in God’s Bosom” (Futokoro-zumai)
The word “futokoro” (“bosom”) means, among others things, “the inside” of something. In Tenrikyo’s discussions of faith, this word often occurs as part of the phrase “living in God’s bosom”–a phrase that indicates the foundation of Tenrikyo’s world view, which is expressed in the Ofudesaki as follows: This universe is…
Graduation Ceremonies Held in Tenri
Tenri High School’s Day Course The graduation ceremony for Tenri High School’s day course was held in the school gymnasium on the morning of February 22. After presenting class representatives with diplomas for the 409 graduates (223 boys and 186 girls), Principal Shigehiko Iburi addressed them, saying: “The 21st century…