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Kurozumiky
:

see
KUROZUMI MUNETADA
.

 
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(1780–1850).
Founder of Kurozumiky
, a Japanese new religion. In 1812, both his parents died, and he contracted tuberculosis; as a result he was virtually bedridden for three years. Believing that his original goal of becoming a
kami
in this life was now frustrated, he vowed that after death he would become a healing deity. However, in prayer to
Amaterasu
, he awoke both to healing and to the realization that the divine and the human are inseparable, and that consequently there is neither birth nor death but only movement in eternal life. This transformative vision occurred on 11 Nov. 1814, a date which is now commemorated as the beginning of Kurozumiky
. He extended his own healing through healing others, and his own vision through itinerant preaching. Kurozumiky
was given government authorization as an independent Shinto sect in 1876. Its leadership is held by direct descendants of Kurozumi and numbers about a quarter of a million adherents.

 
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(Arab., ‘stool’). In Islam, the footstool of the throne (
al-‘arsh
) of God, and often used as a synonym of ‘throne’. It is thus central in debates about the literal or metaphorical sense of such terms in the
Qur’
n
; metaphorically
al-‘arsh
is the Being of God, al-kurs
his non-formal manifestation. A kurs
is also a support for a Qur’
n in a
mosque
.