She is a member of Sōka Gakkai, an international lay Buddhist organization.

Category: Members of Sōka Gakkai

Preference for these titles generally depends on the school to which a person belongs, with " Shōnin " being commonly used within Nichiren Shū, which regards Nichiren as a Buddhist reformer and embodiment of Bodhisattva Superior Practices, while " Daishōnin " is the title used by followers of most, but not all, of the schools and temples derived from the Nikkō lineage, most notably the Sōka Gakkai, who regard Nichiren as ' The Buddha of the Latter Day of the Law ' and also Nichiren Shōshū, who regard Nichiren as ' The True Buddha ', or ' Buddha of True Cause '.

It is the exclusive object of veneration in the Nichiren Shōshū branch as well as formerly affiliated groups such as Sōka Gakkai.

Today those are most notably Nichire Shōshū and Sōka Gakkai.

New religions like Sōka Gakkai, Shōshinkai, and Kenshōkai trace their origins to the Nichiren Shōshū school, most notably amongst those is Sōka Gakkai which due to its steady growth is regarded today as Japan's largest lay Buddhist organisation.

* Sōka Gakkai International, a Buddhist organisation

Sub-sects of Nichiren Buddhism include Nichiren-shu, Nichiren Shōshū and Sōka Gakkai, a controversial denomination whose political wing forms the conservative New Komeito Party, Japan's third largest political party.

The largest new religion is Sōka Gakkai, a Buddhist sect founded in 1930, which has about 10 million members in Japan.

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and / or Sōka Gakkai International ( SGI ) is a lay Buddhist movement linking more than 12 million people around the world.

Makiguchi, Jōsei Toda, and other top Sōka Gakkai leaders were arrested and jailed in 1943 and charged as " thought criminals ".

In the following years he rebuilt the Sōka Gakkai membership from less than 3, 000 families in 1951 to more than 750, 000 before his death in 1958.

The Sōka Gakkai International ( SGI ) currently consists of 84 constituent organizations and has 12 million members in 192 countries and territories worldwide.

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Tsunesaburō Makiguchi, First President of the Sōka Gakkai

From its inception as an educators ' group under Tsunesaburō Makiguchi's leadership, the Sōka Gakkai transformed by the 1930s into a lay religious organization affiliated with the Nichiren Shōshū priesthood.

Daisaku Ikeda's leadership marked a period of overseas expansion that led to the founding of Sōka Gakkai International ( SGI ) in 1975.

Sōka Gakkai was founded as the Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai ( 創価教育学会, lit.

The main differences in beliefs of both sides center on: The doctrine of Heritage of the Law: attributed by the Priesthood to " one person " the High Priest while attributed by the Sōka Gakkai to ordinary people, The Priesthood's demand for " Absolute faith and Strict Obedience " to the High Priest a demand contrasted with SGI definition of related relationship: " mentor and disciple are comrades standing side by side ”, and also: The doctrine of the Three Treasures, in which the Treasure of the Priest is taught by the Sōka Gakkai as the Sangha or " Community of Believers ", while it is restricted solely to the Priest, by Nichiren Shōshū administration.

is president of Sōka Gakkai International ( SGI ), a Nichiren Buddhist lay association which claims 12 million members in 192 countries and territories, and founder of several educational, cultural and peace research institutions.

Ikeda became President of Sōka Gakkai in 1960, after which he began traveling abroad to realize Todaʼs vision of expanding the Soka Gakkai movement.

Even so, Ikeda remained president of SGI, and the position of Sōka Gakkai Honorary President, which he still retains, was created for him by Nittatsu Shonin, then the Nichiren Shoshu High Priest.

An estimated ¥ 35, 536, 000, 000 was raised, of which ¥ 35, 064, 300, 000 came from Sōka Gakkai members, ¥ 313, 820, 000 from Hokkekō members and ¥ 157, 870, 000 from priests and their families.

During the Meiji period some Buddhism-influenced Shinshūkyō also appeared, including Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai, an organization based on Nichiren Buddhism, which would later be renamed Sōka Gakkai.

Toda began practising Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism in 1928 and two years later, together with Makiguchi, he founded the Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai (' Value Creation Education Society ').

He renamed the pre-war society Sōka Gakkai (' Value Creation Society '), thus expressing his conviction that its mission should not be confined to educators and the field of education but should extend to the whole of society.

* " The Sōka Gakkai: Buddhism and the Creation of a Harmonious and Peaceful Society " by Daniel A. Metraux in Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia.

Mr. Makiguchi's encounter with this school of Buddhist thought took his life into an even deeper and broader dimension, resulting in the establishment of the Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai ( Value-Creation Education Society ), the predecessor to today's Sōka Gakkai.

Toda was released from prison in 1945 and, after World War II, rebuilt the organization as a religious movement of social reform, renaming it the Sōka Gakkai.

Sōka ) was integral to Makiguchi's view of " religion as being not separate from, but identical with, the actual life of individuals in society, so that the efforts to create values in mundane life obtained a religious foundation, peace and prosperity of a nation.

As an NGO at the United Nations, Sōka Gakkai was admitted as an NGO associated with the Department of Public Information ( DPI ) and was listed as an NGO in cooperation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ), both in 1981.

Adelstein stated that, according to his sources in the Japanese underworld, Jūzō Itami was planning a new movie about Goto's yakuza faction and its relationship with the religious group Sōka Gakkai and that " A gang of five of his people grabbed Itami and made him jump off a rooftop at gunpoint.

In 1979, Ikeda was forced to resign as president of Sōka Gakkai, accepting responsibility for its purported deviation from Nichiren Shōshū doctrines, and the accompanying conflict with the priesthood, and was succeeded by Hiroshi Hōjō.

A 1995 San Francisco Chronicle article titled " Japan Fears Another Religious Sect " outlined charges in Japan that Sōka Gakkai was " heavy-handed fund raising and proselytizing, as well as intimidating its foes and trying to grab political power ".

The previous structure was built and donated by Sōka Gakkai and was ostensibly replaced because of worries about structural integrity in a major earthquake.

Nichiren Shōshū concedes that its demolition of the Shōhondō was an extension of the doctrinal dispute between it and the Sōka Gakkai.

Kōmeitō was originally the Kōmei Political League, a section of the Sōka Gakkai, an organization that promotes Nichiren Buddhism.

was an educator, peace activist and second president of Sōka Gakkai from 1951 to 1958.

On May 3, 1951, he was inaugurated as second president of Sōka Gakkai.

Tsunesaburō Makiguchi ( 牧口 常三郎, Makiguchi Tsunesaburō 1871 – 1944 ) was a Japanese educator who founded and became the first president of Sōka Gakkai.

The date was later adopted as the Founding Day of Sōka Gakkai.