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The Japanese nation is, generally speaking, so generously disposed towards any system of thought that varying contradictions are kept on with no inconvenience whatever; it seems as if the Japanese nation were gifted with special capacity for tolerance. For instance, religions present an apt example of tolerance on the part of the Japanese nation.

— Fukaya Tadamasa The Fundamental Doctrines of Tenrikyo (1973)

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“Tenri-Ō-no-Mikoto” god is the umgreifend Deity, both pantheistic and theistic, both immanent and transcendent.

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God the Parent “Tenri-Ō-no-Mikoto” may be called an “umgreifend Deity” and likened to a circle of infinite diameter.

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Buddhists try to escape from their life, while Christians attach greater importance to their life in heaven than to that on earth. As for believers of Tenrikyo, however, the greatest emphasis is always put on this life on earth. Neither life nor death can exist independently of God the Parent.

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It may be that Japan is only a speck on a world map drawn by Europeans, but the country consisting of a chain of islands has played and is still playing an important part because of its situation lying east of the continent in the Pacific Ocean. From a cultural point of view Japan is an eastward limit of penetration, and a treasure-house, so to speak, in the history of world civilization. Another important thing is that Japan stands out as the first country in Asia which adopted modern mechanical civilization and carried it to the Asiatic Continent.

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