Soka Gakkai International (SGI) is an international Nichiren Buddhist organisation founded in 1975 by Daisaku Ikeda, as an umbrella organization of Soka Gakkai, which claims approximately 12 ...

An educator, photographer and poet, Ikeda played a key role in spreading the teachings abroad, founding Soka Gakkai International in 1975. He met Josei Toda, the second president of Soka Gokkai ...

Following World War II, she came to the United States. A member of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI), a world peace organization founded on Nichiren Buddhist principles of respect for all and ...

Komeito, a once peace-oriented political party backed by the hugely influential lay Buddhist group Soka Gakkai, all but lost its bearings after becoming the junior member of the ruling coalition ...