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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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  • 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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    Daisaku Ikeda (category Members of Sōka Gakkai)
    He served as the third president and then honorary president of the Soka Gakkai, the largest of Japan's new religious movements.: 5  At this time, he...
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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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    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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    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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    performed at major Soka Gakkai meetings. It was reported in Japan that this was one cause of the split between the Soka Gakkai and Soka Gakkai International...
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    Nichiren Shōshū excommunicated the Soka Gakkai and the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) on 28 November 1991. Soka Gakkai had emerged as a lay organization...
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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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    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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    Tsunesaburō Makiguchi (category Soka 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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    ruling parties (LDP, JSP, and NPS) demanded that Soka Gakkai Honorary President Daisaku Ikeda and Soka Gakkai President Einosuke Akiya be subpoenaed as witnesses...
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  • at Sims Avenue. A schism in Japan in 1991 saw the excommunication of Soka Gakkai out of Nichiren Shōshū, following which the respective branches in Singapore...
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    Patrick Duffy (category Converts to Sōka Gakkai)
    He and his family are longtime members of the Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai International. On November 18, 1986, Duffy's parents were murdered at...
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    Jōsei Toda (category Soka Gakkai)
    2 April 1958) was a teacher, peace activist and second president of Soka Gakkai from 1951 to 1958. Imprisoned for two years during World War II under...
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    contributions made by the lay groups Reiyukai and Soka Gakkai and Stone discusses the contributions of the Soka Gakkai and Risshō Kōsei Kai. According to Jacqueline...
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    achieving delivery from it. According to Daisaku Ikeda, head of the Soka Gakkai new religious movement, "The essence of Buddhist humanism lies in the...
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  • himself as the reincarnation of Viśiṣṭacāritra. In Nichiren Shōshū, Soka Gakkai and the Kempon Hokke schools, Nichiren is revered as the reincarnation...
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  • the time of his death, he was president of Soka Gakkai International and honorary president of Soka Gakkai. During his lifetime, he received more than...
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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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  • 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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  • founder of The Trevor Project (Soka Gakkai International) Anthony Lee (1981–2000), American actor and playwright. (Soka Gakkai International) Mandy Patinkin...
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    Indebtedness)." Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism, Soka Gakkai, "Ten Major Writings". Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism, Soka Gakkai, "Rissho Ankoku...
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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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    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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  • Nikken Abe (category Critics of Sōka Gakkai)
    publications. As High Priest, Abe affirmed the permanent expulsion of the Soka Gakkai on 28 November 1991 and was known for the destruction of the "Sho Hondo"...
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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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  • Kōmeitō (1962–1998) (category Soka Gakkai)
    Daisaku Ikeda, and described by various authors as the "political arm" of Soka Gakkai. Kōmeitō was considered a centre to centre-left political party of the...
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