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    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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    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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  • 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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    media. Coudenhove-Kalergi visited Japan again at the invitation of the Sōka Gakkai in October 1970. Two decades later, in 1990, Ikeda proposed that Coudenhove-Kalergi's...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Kate Bosworth (category Converts to Sōka Gakkai)
    Katherine Anne Bosworth (born January 2, 1983) is an American actress. Following minor roles in the films The Horse Whisperer (1998) and Remember the Titans...
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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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    Roberto Baggio (category Members of Sōka Gakkai)
    converted to Buddhism, practicing Nichiren Buddhism, and is a member of the Soka Gakkai International Buddhist organisation. The captain's armband that he wore...
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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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  • 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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    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, actor, DJ and lead singer of the English...
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    Tisca Chopra (category Converts to Sōka Gakkai)
    Tisca Zareen Chopra (née Arora; born 1 November 1969) is an Indian actress, author and film producer who has appeared in over 45 feature films, predominantly...
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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Onisaburo Deguchi of Oomoto and Tsunesaburō Makiguchi of Soka Kyoiku Gakkai (now Soka Gakkai), who typically were charged with violation of lèse-majesté...
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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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    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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    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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