101. Japan Today - News - 2 Buddhist Group Members Arrested Over Confinement Of Stude YOKOHAMA — Two members of a Buddhist group were arrested Thursday on suspicion Oh, and Taisekiji is the head temple of Nichiren Shoshu, not soka gakkai, http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=2&id=344843

102. Sociology Of Religion: A Time To Chant: The Soka Gakkai Buddhists In Britain. - The soka gakkai International (SGI) is a lay organization that developed out of Unlike the participants in many other Buddhist groups, members of soka http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0SOR/is_n3_v57/ai_18902836

@import url(/css/us/style1.css); @import url(/css/us/searchResult1.css); @import url(/css/us/articles.css); @import url(/css/us/artHome1.css); Advanced Search Home Help IN free articles only all articles this publication Automotive Sports 10,000,000 articles - not found on any other search engine. FindArticles Sociology of Religion Fall 1996 Content provided in partnership with 10,000,000 articles Not found on any other search engine. Featured Titles for ASA News ASEE Prism Academe African American Review ... View all titles in this topic Hot New Articles by Topic Automotive Sports Top Articles Ever by Topic Automotive Sports A Time to Chant: The Soka Gakkai Buddhists in Britain. - book reviews Sociology of Religion Fall, 1996 by Eileen Barker Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. After the Second World War, at the start of what McFarland has evocatively termed The Rush Hour of the Gods, Soka Gakkai numbered but a few hundred Japanese followers. Today it is one of the best-known and, in terms of numbers, the most successful of the new movements in Japan and of all the Buddhist groups that have come to the West, claiming several millions of members in Japan and some hundreds of thousands throughout the rest of the world around 4,000 of whom are to be found in Britain. Continue article Advertisement Wilson and Dobbelaere introduce us to the history of the movement's Japanese origins and to its current international flavor. We are told of the relationship of British members with the not altogether uncontroversial figure of President Ikeda. An interesting appendix details the 1990-1992 schism between on the one hand, Ikeda and Soka Gakkai and, on the other hand, the Nichiren Shoshu priests, based at Taiseku-ji, the head temple in the foothills of Mount Fuji where the original Gohonzon, inscribed in 1253, is enshrined.

103. 11/20/95 INT/JAPAN THE POWER OF SOKA GAKKAI That organization is soka gakkai, Japan s most powerful Buddhist sect. Not only soka gakkai but also other large Buddhist sects cultivate politicians; http://www.time.com/time/international/1995/951120/japan.html

TIME Magazine November 20, 1995 Volume 146, No. 21 Return to Contents page JAPAN THE POWER OF SOKA GAKKAI GROWING REVELATIONS ABOUT THE COMPLICATED AND SINISTER NEXUS OF POLITICS AND RELIGION EDWARD W. DESMOND/TOKYO REPORTED BY IRENE M. KUNII/TOKYO On Sept. 1, Akiyo Asaki, 50, a local assemblywoman from Higashi Murayama, a city on the western outskirts of Tokyo, walked out of her office without explanation and without taking any identification. According to police, a few hours later she climbed the external stairs of a nearby office building to the fifth floor, scaled a 1.2-m-high wall and jumped to her death. Police concluded that Asaki had taken her own lifeuntil her family protested. "She was not the type to commit suicide," says a close friend and fellow assembly member, Hozumi Yano. "She was always cheerful, even though she knew she was up against a powerful organization." That organization is Soka Gakkai, Japan's most powerful Buddhist sect. It has at least 8.12 million members; assets estimated to be as high as $100 billion; and a political offshoot, the Komeito (Clean Government Party), that has long been a force in the Diet and in regional assemblies throughout the country. In Asaki's view, Soka Gakkai (Value-creating Society) was becoming a bit too forceful. She was helping ex-Soka Gakkai members who were being harassed for quitting, and based on her own investigations, she had accused Komeito politicians of using their clout to give local government contracts to Soka Gakkai members. In recent months she had received anonymous death threats on the phone.

104. What Is The Soka Gakkai International (SGI) ? soka gakkai is a lay Buddhist association that embraces the philosophy and teachings of Nichiren, a 13thcentury Japanese Buddhist sage and scholar. http://homepage.mac.com/philasgi/sgi.htm

About the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) About Soka Gakkai and Nichiren in Other Languages (Spanish, Portugese, French and Italian) Soka Gakkai Japan SGI-USA SGI Public Information Site SGI President Daisaku Ikeda Daisaku Ikeda was born in Tokyo on January 2, 1928. As a teenager during WW II, Mr.Ikeda experienced the horrors of war through the death and devastation around him, including the death of his eldest brother on the Burmese front. He developed a deep-rooted abhorrence to war and a respect for those who had undergone persecution by the state for their anti-war beliefs but had not compromised their convictions. In 1947, at age 19, he met such a personJosei Toda. Soon after their meeting, Mr. Ikeda joined Soka Gakkai and began working as editor for a boy's magazine that Mr. Toda published. He became Mr. Toda's most trusted aide in the organization. In 1960, two years after Mr. Toda's death, Mr. Ikeda became the third Soka Gakkai president. During Mr. Ikeda's presidency, the organization expanded in Japan and internationally. At the same time he was instrumental in establishing various institutions to apply Buddhist principles in the fields of peace, culture and education. Among these are Soka University and other Soka schools, from kindergarten through high school; the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum; the Min-On Concert Association; and the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research. In 1971, Mr. Ikeda began a series of discussions with the British historian Arnold Toynbee which were later published under the title Choose Life. Mr. Ikeda has since criss-crossed the globe inpursuit of peace and has met with leading scholars, activists, ordinary citizens and world leaders, among them former Brazilian Academy of Letters president Austregesilo de Athayde, Norwegian peace scholar Johan Galtung and former Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev.

105. Notice Of Expulsion To Soka Gakkai, December, 1991 To all soka gakkai Members. From Nichiren Shoshu Bureau of Religious Affairs.On November 28, 1991, soka gakkai was notified of it s expulsion from Nichiren http://ww2.netnitco.net/users/jqpublic/noe.html

December, 1991 TO: All Members of the Soka Gakkai FROM: Nichiren Shoshu Bureau of Religious Affairs On November 28, 1991, Nichiren Shoshu notified the Soka Gakkai organization of its expulsion from this sect. As a result, the Soka Gakkai is no longer associated with Nichiren Shoshu. In accordance with the provisions of this expulsion order, this sect will not recognize the Soka Gakkai lay organization. However, since each member of the Soka Gakkai is first a believer of Nichiren Shoshu because of the reception of Gojukai and the issuance of a Gohonzon through a local temple, each individual retains his or her membership in this sect. Therefore, Nichiren Shoshu will still accept a Nichiren Shoshu member's application for a Tozan pilgrimage to the Head Temple. Nichiren Shoshu will also continue to accept requests for the various ceremonies held at different times during a person's life such as coming of age rites, weddings, funerals and memorial services, as well as requests for activities conducted throughout the year. Regarding requests for Gojukai or the issuance of Gohonzon, the party making this request must become a member of the Hokkeko or a direct temple follower and be willing to genuinely persevere in the faith of Nichiren Shoshu. Otherwise, such requests cannot be accepted.

106. Soka Gakkai :Observatory On Religious, Spiritual And Philosophical Entities soka gakkai International (hereinafter SGI) is an umbrella organization that Global Citizens The soka gakkai Buddhist Movement in the World, http://www.hrwf.net/html/soka_gakkai__observatory_on_re.html

Soka Gakkai By Yohei Suda LL.B., University of Tokyo in 1999 Brief History of Soka Gakkai Soka Gakkai, a lay Buddhist movement, was founded in 1930 by Tsunesaburo Makiguchi (1871-1944), who was the first president from 1930 to 1944, and by Josei Toda (1900-1958), who was the second president from 1951 to 1958. Its original name was Soka Kyoiku Gakkai. Both were educators converted to Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism. Makiguchi was originally an elementary school teacher. He was dissatisfied with school education in Japan at that time because it was too abstract and too elitist and it did not emphasise practical skills for ordinary people. Makiguchi also considered that apart from pedagogy, religion was important for the creation of values. He found that the teaching of Nichiren (1222-1282) was the best education method because it was mass-oriented. Nichiren studied various teachings of Buddhism and finally found that the essence of Buddhism is in Lotus Sutra, which reveals to all the people that they have potential for enlightenment without regard to individual distinctions. Nichiren advocated that following Lotus Sutra (Hokkekyo) leads everyone to happiness. Makiguchi and Toda started to follow the teaching of Nichiren and established Soka Gakkai to develop an education project based on his theories.

107. ≈ Soka Gakkai International soka Gakka, NSA soka gakkai InternationalUSA soka gakkai International (SGI)-USA is an American Buddhist association that promotes world peace and http://www.csj.org/infoserv_links/sgi-usa.htm

Soka Gakka, NSA Soka Gakkai International-USA "Soka Gakkai International (SGI)-USA is an American Buddhist association that promotes world peace and individual happiness based on the teachings of the Nichiren school of Mahayana Buddhism. Our members reflect a cross section of our diverse American society, representing a broad range of ethnic and social backgrounds."

108. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Soka Gakkai@ HighBeam Research soka gakkai International is a lay Buddhist soka gakkai YOUTH GROUP MAKES REFUGEE DONATION Publication PR Newswire http://www.highbeam.com/ref/doc0.asp?docid=1E1:SokaGakk

109. A Warm Welcome To SOKA GAKKAI (Japan)'s Official Web Site soka gakkai is a lay association of Nichiren Buddhists founded on the With Buddhist practice, an individual can develop wisdom to create value and live http://www.sokagakkai.info/

Text Version CALENDAR Wednesday, September 7, 2005 BREAKING NEWS Feature Controversies addressed NEW SUBSECTION UNDER "VIEWPOINT" SGI-USA Continues Emergency Relief Efforts in Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in USA; SGI-USA Youth Launch Toy Collection Drive for Children (Sep 7 '05 headline) Soka Gakkai Sets Up Emergency Relief Operations Centers Following Typhoon No.14 in Kyushu, Shikoku and Chugoku (Sep 7 '05 headline) SGI-USA Continues Relief Efforts to Assist Hurricane Victims in the U.S. (Sep 5 '05 headline) SGI-USA Sets Up Emergency Relief Operations in Wake of Hurricane Disaster (Sep 3 '05 headline) SGI President Sends Condolence Telegram on Death of Dr. Joseph Rotblat (Sep 3 '05 headline) Exhibition on Soka Gakkai's History Opens in Mie (Sep 3 '05 headline) Soka Gakkai Malaysia Opens New Center in Kuantan, Pahang (Sep 2 '05 headline) SGI-Europe Members Meet for Summer Study in Trets, France (Sep 2 '05 headline) Tokyo Fuji Art Museum's "Masterpieces of Japanese Art" Opens in Oita Prefecture (Sep 1 '05 headline) Choose Life,

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