# Tenrikyo · The Canon · The Atlas · The Congregation of Tomorrow Source: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/atlas/library/canon/tenrikyo/ · The Congregation of Tomorrow · the Atlas · language: en The same words a person sees on this page, nothing more and nothing hidden. Our own words are free to use under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), naming the Congregation of Tomorrow. Words of others keep their own terms. Every page of the site, listed: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/pages.json · the whole site in one file: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/llms-full.txt ← The Canon: all 125 The Canon · No. 085 Tenrikyo The Religion of Divine Wisdom 1838 CE – present · New Religious Movement · Living · Japan; missions worldwide VI. REFORMATION & EARLY MODERN — 1500 – 1800 ### How many ### Who began it ### What it is for ### What it worships ### What it holds ### What it does ### After death ### Its texts ### Its branches ### Of note ### Its timeline - 26 October 1838 CE Miki's revelation. The date is the religion's founding. - 1838–1860s CE She gives away the family's property to the poor, reducing her household to poverty; her family and village regard her as mad. - 1860s–1880s CE She becomes known as a safe-childbirth granter; the movement grows among the rural poor. - 1870s–1886 CE Repeatedly arrested and imprisoned by Meiji authorities, the last time at 89. - 1887 CE Miki withdraws from physical life, in the tradition's language, at 90. - 1908 CE Granted legal recognition as a sect of Shinto, under conditions that forced doctrinal compromises. - 1938–45 CE Wartime state pressure forces the removal of core teachings; the originals are restored in 1946. - 1970 CE Tenri City formally named; the religion is one of the very few to have a city named after it. - 1995 CE Large-scale Tenrikyo relief operations after the Kobe earthquake. ### Sources Not yet checked against named sources. This entry is the house's reading; until it is checked, treat each claim as unverified. Correct it, with a source. The Atlas The Door