The Shinbashira is Tenrikyo's spiritual and administrative head, the senior ministerial authority over the religion's organisation and teaching. The position has descended through the Nakayama family since the faith's founding. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Reach of Its AuthorityThe whole tradition, or a claim to it 1 The Shinbashira's authority runs administratively across the whole of Tenrikyo, every affiliated church and minister worldwide, from the headquarters at Tenri, which is a different kind of standing from the Jiba itself: the Jiba is the fixed sacred point the whole religion orients toward, while the Shinbashira is the office that governs the organisation built around it, and the two are not the same source of authority even though both sit at Tenri. Connections
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According to Shozen Nakayama, the second Shinbashira (the spiritual and administrative leader of Tenrikyo), the Ofudesaki "reveal[s] the most important principles of the faith," the Mikagura-uta "come[s] alive through singing or as the accompaniment" to the Service, and the Osashizu "gives concrete precepts by which the followers should reflect on their own conduct.
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