Taikyo Institute

The Great Teaching Institute (大教院, Taikyoin)[1] was an organization under the Ministry of Religion in the Empire of Japan.[2]

Great Teaching Institute
大教院
PredecessorDepartment of Divinities
SuccessorBureau of Shinto Affairs
Formation1872
Dissolved1875
Parent organization
Ministry of Religion

History

It was founded in 1872[3] to train kyōdo shōku or religious teachers because the Missionary Office and Department of Divinities were unsuccessful in their national indoctrination objectives.[4] It was intended as a joint Shinto and Buddhist organization, but ended up becoming entirely dominated by Shinto.

Medium Teaching Institutes (中教院, Chukyoin) were established in each prefectural capital and Small Teaching Institutes (小教院, Shokyoin) were established in various cities.

On January 1, 1875, an arson attack on the Great Teaching Institute caused confusion, with four Jōdo Shinshū sects informally announcing their departure from the Great Teaching Institute.[5]

On May 3, 1875, the Great Teaching Institute was dissolved by the Ministry of Religion[6][7] and was succeeded by the Bureau of Shinto Affairs[8] and later Shinto Taikyo.[2]

Ame-no-Minakanushi was one of its patron deities, also known under the Buddhist name Myōken.[9]

The "Great Teaching" is the same word that is used in the "Great Doctrine" or Proclamation of the Great Doctrine, and Taikyo in Shinto Taikyo.

See also

References
  1. "Encyclopedia of Shinto詳細". 國學院大學デジタルミュージアム (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-03-11.
  2. "教派神道とは – 神道大教" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-06-26.
  3. 中村元ほか編 (2002). 岩波仏教辞典 (第二版 ed.). 岩波書店. pp. 220–222. ISBN 978-4000802055.
  4. Yoshio Yasumaru, Masato Miyaji, eds. Nihon modern thought compendium 5 Religion and the State, p. 431
  5. Masamichi Ogahara (August 2004). Study of Daikyoin : Development and Failure of Religious Administration in the Early Meiji Period (in Japanese). Keio University Press. pp. Appendix: chronology. ISBN 4766410904.
  6. 村上 2007, pp. 103–104.
  7. Kawamura Tadanobu (March 2017). "Part 1: State Sovereignty and Recognized Shrines Chapter 1: "State Sovereignty" in Shrine Administration". Legal Studies of Modern Shinto (in Japanese). Kobundo.
  8. 藤井貞文 (1977-03-01). 明治国学発生史の研究 (in Japanese). 吉川弘文館. pp. 1–750.
  9. Mori, Mizue. "Amenominakanushi". Encyclopedia of Shinto. Kokugakuin University. Retrieved 2020-11-07.

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