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Soka Gakkai International. 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 fear the number is overrated.
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 Japanese priest Nichiren. It claims the largest membership among Nichiren Buddhist groups.
The Buddhist flag alongside Dharmachakra flags (Thai Buddhist flag) and Thai flags in Wat Hiranyawat [th], Thailand. The Buddhist flag is a flag designed in the late 19th century as a universal symbol of Buddhism. [1] The flag's six vertical bands represent the five colors of the aura which Buddhists believe emanated from the body of the Buddha ...
daisakuikeda.org. Daisaku Ikeda (池田 大作, Ikeda Daisaku, 2 January 1928 – 15 November 2023) was a Japanese Buddhist leader, author, philosopher, and educator. He served as the third president and then honorary president of the Soka Gakkai, the largest of Japan's new religious movements. [2]: 5. Ikeda was the founding president of the ...
TOKYO (Reuters) -Daisaku Ikeda, who helped spread Buddhist thought around the world through Soka Gakkai - Japan's largest religious organisation and an ally of the government - has died, the ...
Soka University of America (SUA) is a private liberal arts college in Aliso Viejo, California. [8] Originally founded in 1987, it was established on its current campus in 2001 by Daisaku Ikeda , the founder of the Soka Gakkai International Buddhist movement.
t. e. Nichiren Shōshū (日 蓮 正 宗, English: The Orthodox School of Nichiren) is a branch of Nichiren Buddhism based on the traditionalist teachings of the 13th century Japanese Buddhist priest Nichiren (1222–1282), claiming him as its founder through his senior disciple Nikko Shonin (1246–1333), the founder of Head Temple Taiseki-ji ...
048-922-0151. Address. 1-1-1 Takasago, Soka-shi, Saitama-ken 840-8550. Website. Official website. Sōka Matsubara. Sōka (草加市, Sōka-shi) is a city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 February 2021, the city had an estimated population of 249,645 in 118,129 households and a population density of 9100 persons per km². [1]