The was an organization under the Ministry of Religion in the

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It was founded in 1872 to train ''kyōdo shōku'' or religious teachers because the Missionary Office and

Department of Divinities The , also known as the Department of Shinto Affairs, Department of Rites, Department of Worship, as well as Council of Divinities, was a Japanese Imperial bureaucracy established in the 8th century, as part of the ''ritsuryō'' reforms. It was fi ...

were unsuccessful in their national indoctrination objectives. It was intended as a joint

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and

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organization, but ended up becoming entirely dominated by

. were established in each prefectural capital and were established in various cities. On January 1, 1875, an arson attack on the Great Teaching Institute caused confusion, with four

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sects informally announcing their departure from the Great Teaching Institute. On May 3, 1875, the Great Teaching Institute was dissolved by the Ministry of Religion and was succeeded by the

Bureau of Shinto Affairs was the successor to the Great Teaching Institute, which was founded in 1875. In the religious administration of the Meiji era, it is an organization that brings together Shinto factions nationwide. It was a public central institution. Meiji Gove ...

and later

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was one of its patron deities, also known under the Buddhist name

Myōken Myōken ( sa, डाकिनी, ; Chinese: 妙見菩薩 (Traditional) / 妙见菩萨 ( Simplified), ; Japanese: 妙見菩薩, ''Myōken Bosatsu''), also known as Sonjō-Ō (尊星王, "Venerable Star King", also ''Sonsei-Ō'' or ''Sonshō-Ō'' ...

. The "Great Teaching" is the same word that is used in the "Great Doctrine" or

Proclamation of the Great Doctrine The was issued in the name of Emperor Meiji on January 3, 1870 (February 3). �歴代の詔勅�� p.66 河野省三内閣印刷局、1940年（国立国会図書館） It declared the "way of the gods" (Shinto) as the guiding principle of the s ...

, and Taikyo in

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* * * * * * * （文庫：1994年.ISBN 4886924603.）「教派神道に流れる古神道の本質」の章あり.

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