Soka Gakkai (Japanese: 創価学会, Hepburn: Sōka Gakkai, 'Value-Creation Society') is a Japanese Buddhist religious movement based on the teachings of the 13th-century...
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Soka Gakkai International (SGI) is an international Nichiren Buddhist organization founded in 1975 by Daisaku Ikeda, as an umbrella organization of Soka...
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Komeito (section Relationship with Soka Gakkai)
political party in Japan founded by members of the Buddhist movement Soka Gakkai in 1964. It is generally considered as centrist and conservative. Since...
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years. Coudenhove-Kalergi visited Japan again at the invitation of the Sōka Gakkai in October 1970 [citation needed]. Two decades later, in 1990, Ikeda...
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Soka University (Japanese: 創価大学, Hepburn: Sōka Daigaku), abbreviated typically as Sodai (創大) or Sokadai (創価大), is a Soka Gakkai-affiliated private university...
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Minoru Harada (category Members of Sōka Gakkai)
president of the Soka Gakkai from 9 November 2006. He is also the Supreme Advisor of Sōka University and the Acting President of Soka Gakkai International...
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Daisaku Ikeda (category Members of Sōka Gakkai)
president of the Soka Gakkai, the largest of Japan's new religious movements.: 5 Ikeda was the founding president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI)...
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addition, modern lay organizations not affiliated with temples such as Soka Gakkai, Kenshokai, Shoshinkai, Risshō Kōsei Kai, and Honmon Butsuryū-shū also...
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Tsunesaburō Makiguchi (category Members of Sōka Gakkai)
the first president of the Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai (Value-Creating Education Society), the predecessor of today's Soka Gakkai. Makiguchi was born in the small...
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Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (category Members of Sōka Gakkai)
lives in Los Angeles. He is a Nichiren Buddhist and a member of the Soka Gakkai International Buddhist association. Akinnuoye-Agbaje asked to be written...
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Daisaku Ikeda, the founder of the Soka Gakkai International Buddhist movement. Though affiliated with Soka Gakkai, it maintains a secular curriculum...
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Gohonzon (section The gohonzon issue of Soka Gakkai)
ways, signifying their treatment of the object: "Object of Devotion" — Soka Gakkai "Object of Worship" — Nichiren Shōshū "The Great Mandala, Venerated Supreme"...
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most famous and successful of the Japanese new religions", "was Sōka Gakkai." Sōka Gakkai ("The Value Creation Society") was a lay organization founded...
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the two sides after Nichiren Shōshū excommunicated the leaders of the Sōka Gakkai and stripped it of its status as a lay organization of Nichiren Shōshū...
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Patrick Duffy (category Converts to Sōka Gakkai)
"Soka Gakkai International Musicians Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter Join Carlos Santana to Headline Emissaries of Peace Tour" (Press release). Soka Gakkai...
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based movements like Sōka Gakkai and Risshō Kōseikai (which are today the largest lay Buddhist organizations in Japan). Soka Gakkai "... grew rapidly in...
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The Soka Gakkai Italian Buddhist Institute (Italian: Istituto Buddista Italiano Soka Gakkai) is the Italian branch of the Soka Gakkai International Nichiren...
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Boy George (category Members of Sōka Gakkai)
George Alan O'Dowd (born 14 June 1961), known professionally as Boy George, is an English singer, songwriter, DJ, and the lead singer of the pop band Culture...
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Bodhisattvas of the Earth (section Soka Gakkai)
Bodhisattvas of the Earth. Daisaku Ikeda, president of the Soka Gakkai International, often describes Soka Gakkai members as the present-day Bodhisattvas of the Earth...
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previously Hsi Lai University. Soka University of America, in Aliso Viejo California, was founded by the Sōka Gakkai as a secular school committed to...
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Jōsei Toda (category Members of Sōka Gakkai)
Makiguchi's Sōka kyōikugaku taikei ("The System of Value-Creating Pedagogy") which was published in 1930 and marked the founding of the Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai ("Value...
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Tina Turner (category Members of Sōka Gakkai)
on the cover. Turner credited the Liturgy of Nichiren Daishonin and Soka Gakkai International for her introduction to spiritual knowledge. Turner stated...
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Buddhist liturgy (section Soka Gakkai International)
formula which is longheld in their practice, while others such as the Soka Gakkai International variedly change their gongyo formats depending on modernity...
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Kōmeitō (1962–1998) (category Soka Gakkai)
League) by the Sōka Gakkai, an organization that promoted Nichiren Buddhism. Running as independents, three members of the Sōka Gakkai had been elected...
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Kosen-rufu (section Soka Gakkai)
Both the Soka Gakkai and Rissho Koseikai hold that peacemaking and social improvement require inner personal transformation. The Soka Gakkai labels this...
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October 2020. H. Byron Earhart (31 October 2013). "Value Creation Society (Sōka Gakkai)". In Huffman, James L. (ed.). Modern Japan: An Encyclopedia of History...
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Courtney Love (category Converts to Sōka Gakkai)
had been sober since completing rehabilitation in 2007, and cited her Soka Gakkai Buddhist practice (which she began in 1988) as integral to her sobriety...
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The Soka School System (Japanese: 創価学園 Hepburn: Sōka Gakuen) is a Japanese corporate body that oversees a series of kindergartens, elementary schools,...
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"Facebook". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2024-08-02. "CONTACTO, Soka Gakkai (Costa Rica)". Soka Gakkai (Costa Rica) (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-08-02. "Casa Zen...
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Orlando Bloom (category Converts to Sōka Gakkai)
chest). In 2004, he became a full member of SGI-UK (the UK branch of Soka Gakkai International), a lay Buddhist association affiliated with the teachings...
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