Sacred Sites
Jiba
Tenrikyo Sites
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The Jiba is the exact spot inside Tenrikyo's main sanctuary at Tenri, Nara, held to be the place where humanity was conceived. It is marked by the Kanrodai, a wooden stand described by the founder, and the sanctuary is built facing inward on four sides around it so worshippers approach from every direction. Tenrikyo followers describe a pilgrimage there not as a visit but as a return, since the site is understood as the shared home of every human being.
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Type of Site DetailSourced to the subject's own accountUnder the state controlled Shinto establishment of the pre-1945 period, Tenrikyo came under sustained government pressure to alter its teaching and practice so that it read as compatible with State Shinto, pressure the religion could only fully set aside once Japan's postwar constitution guaranteed religious freedom. The site's standing as the Jiba, the fixed point named in Tenrikyo's own account of humanity's origin, was affirmed rather than diminished once that pressure lifted. 1 History
Historical NoteSourced to the subject's own accountThe Kanrodai the foundress described, a stepped stone pillar marking the Jiba itself, was never finished to the design she gave: Meiji era authorities halted its construction as a public order concern in the 1880s, and the stand standing there today remains at that incomplete stage by design rather than neglect, since Tenrikyo doctrine holds its completion belongs to the renewal of the world rather than to any builder in the present. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Jiba directly: "that the ground around the sacred Jiba, the Home the Parent, would become the model of a Joyous Life for all humanity."
This source names Jiba directly: "Kagura Service performed only at the Jiba in Tenri."
This source names Jiba directly: "nine years before she identified the Jiba as the faith's sacred center in 1875, also recorded here, Miki began teaching her small circle of followers the ritual practice that would become Tenrikyo's..."
Nara, Cities This source names Nara directly: "Tenrikyo's main sanctuary at Tenri, Nara, held to be the place where humanity was conceived."
This source names Jiba directly: "thousand followers returning to Jiba to observe it."
This source names Jiba directly: "by her followers, identified the Jiba, the exact spot within what became Tenrikyo Church Headquarters at Tenri in Yamato Province, thirty seven years after the revelation Tenrikyo counts as her 26..."
This source names Jiba directly: "on the Oyasato-yakata at the faith's Jiba in 1954, already recorded here."
This source names Jiba directly: "hundred from overseas, returned to Jiba, the faith's holy site, to observe the anniversary, the largest of the decennial milestone services the faith holds on Oyasama's death date."
This source names Jiba directly: "873 meters on each side around the Jiba, and the complex's purpose as the Residence of God's children."
This source names Jiba directly: "the twenty sixth of every month at the Jiba in Tenri, commemorating the twenty sixth of October 1838, the day the faith holds that God the Parent first spoke through Nakayama Miki."
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