更新时间：2023-12-25 21:25:02作者：欧曼老师
天理大学是奈良县天理唯一的大学，距离大阪约30英里。和这个小镇一样，它的名字取自日本的一个宗教运动“天理教”，该运动提倡“快乐生活”，在日本有近17000座教堂和200万信徒
它成立于1925年，是日本第一所私立外国语学校，旨在向海外传教士提供天理教。1949年，它获得了大学地位，拥有一个单一的人文学院。它的校园是Oyasata Yakata建筑群的一部分，自1954年以来一直是该宗教的总部，其他设施包括神学院、学校和医院
2017年，学生人数刚刚超过3000人，其中约三分之一被认为是真理教的追随者。它提供一种“人文教育”，分布在人类研究、文学、国际研究、柔道（日本武术的一种形式）和体育研究的各个学院。布多和体育研究（902名学生）以及地区研究（718名学生）是最大的系，仅占总人数的一半多一点
该大学图书馆拥有超过145万册藏书，包括一批重要的宗教藏品和100多件被列为国宝的物品，它还负责管理拥有重要民族学和艺术藏品的三科馆博物馆
它有着强大的体育传统，其柔道队在2013年赢得了11个全国大学生锦标赛冠军，校友中赢得了4个奥运会和世界冠军，其中包括20世纪60年代打破日本世界和奥运会冠军垄断的荷兰人Anton Geesink。这支橄榄球队在2011年和2019年的全国大学生锦标赛中获得亚军
Tenri Universiuty is the only university in Tenri, Nara Prefecture, around 30 miles from Osaka. Like the town it takes its name from Tenrikyo, a Japanese religious movement promoting the "joyous life" which has close to 17,000 churches and two million adherents in Japan.
It was founded in 1925 as Japan’s first private foreign language school, with the aim of providing Tenrikyo overseas missionaries. It attained university status, with a single faculty of humanities, in 1949. Its campus is part of the Oyasata-Yakata complex, since 1954 the headquarters of the religion with other facilities including a seminary, schools and a hospital.
There were just over 3,000 students in 2017, with around a third believed to followers of Tenrikyo. It offers a "humanistic education" spread across faculties of human studies, letters, international studies and budo (a form of Japanese martial arts) and sports studies. Budo and sports studies (902 students) and area studies (718) were the largest departments, accounting for just over half the total roll.
The university library has more than 1.45 million volumes, including a significant religious collection and more than 100 items classified as national treasures, and it also oversees the Sankokan Museum, which has important ethnology and art collections.
It has strong sporting traditions, with its judo team winning 11 national collegiate championships by 2013 and four Olympic and World Champions among its alumni including Anton Geesink, the Dutchman who broke Japan’s monopoly of world and Olympic titles in the 1960s. The rugby squad was runner-up in the national collegiate championships in 2011 and 2019.
