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Soka Gakkai (Japanese: 創価学会, Hepburn: Sōka Gakkai, 'Value-Creation Society') is a Japanese new religion led by Minoru Harada since December 2023 based on the teachings of the 13th-century buddhist priest Nichiren.
Soka Gakkai International (SGI) is an international Nichiren Buddhist organization founded in 1975 by Daisaku Ikeda, as an umbrella organization of Soka Gakkai. It is run by two vice-presidents, including Hiromasa Ikeda, son of the founder. It claims 12 million adherents, but scholars claim the number is overestimated.
The tradition of holding zadankai was continued by the second Soka Gakkai president Jōsei Toda after World War II. [2] Under Daisaku Ikeda's presidency, they are the central activity of the Soka Gakkai. [3] Ikeda organized discussion meetings for Japanese emigres during his first overseas trip to the United States and Brazil in 1960. The first ...
The Soka Gakkai labels this as "human revolution" (ningen kakumei) and Risso Koseikai calls it "reformation of the mind" (kokoro no kaizō). Both groups reason that since war, strife, and injustice are rooted in the three poisons of greed, anger, and delusion existing in the minds of individuals, the creation of lasting peace requires ...
By the 1970s, Ikeda's leadership had expanded the Soka Gakkai into an international lay Buddhist movement increasingly active in peace, cultural, and educational activities. [29]: 371–72, 376 On 26 January 1975, Soka Gakkai representatives from 51 countries created the Soka Gakkai International. Ikeda took a leading role in the global ...
Soka Gakkai's website says that "the essence of Buddhism is the conviction that we have within us at each moment the ability to overcome any problem or difficulty that we may encounter in life ...
Daisaku Ikeda, who headed Soka Gakkai, a Japanese Buddhist organization, that includes famed musician Herbie Hancock and other celebrities in its fold, has died at 95, the Japanese religious ...
SUA is a secular college founded by Daisaku Ikeda, the President of Soka Gakkai International (SGI). SUA's philosophical foundation originated in the work of Tsunesaburō Makiguchi, who was the first President of Soka Gakkai and created a society for educators dedicated to social and educational reform in Japan during the years leading up to World War II.