WebSoka Gakkai International (SGI) is an international Nichiren Buddhist organisation founded in 1975 by Daisaku Ikeda, as an umbrella organization of Soka Gakkai, which declares approximately 12 million adherents in 192 countries and territories as of 2017, more than 1.5 million of whom reside outside of Japan as of 2012. It characterizes itself as a support …

WebSoka 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 as taught by its first three presidents Tsunesaburō Makiguchi, Jōsei Toda, and Daisaku Ikeda.It is the largest of the Japanese new religions and claims …

Webwhy don't you probe Sokagakkai as well? The only cult which is a political party. The Soka Gakkai and the Komeito are two separate organizations. The Komeito receives no money from the Soka Gakkai. Komeito's regulations limit the amounts people can donate. Funds are from its publications and the money received from the government.

WebThe Tokyo subway sarin attack (地下鉄サリン事件, Chikatetsu Sarin Jiken, "Subway Sarin Incident") was an act of domestic terrorism perpetrated on 20 March 1995, in Tokyo, Japan, by members of the cult movement Aum Shinrikyo.In five coordinated attacks, the perpetrators released sarin on three lines of the Tokyo Metro (then Teito Rapid Transit …

WebLa Sōka gakkai (創価学会?) (« Société pour la création de valeurs ») est un mouvement bouddhiste moderne fondé en 1930 au Japon par Tsunesaburō Makiguchi et Jōsei Toda, en tant que branche laïque de l'école Nichiren Shōshū [1]. Du fait de sa création au XX e siècle, la Sōka Gakkai est considérée comme un nouveau mouvement religieux [2], [3] et …

WebDaisaku Ikeda (池田 大作, Ikeda Daisaku, born 2 January 1928) is a Japanese Buddhist philosopher, educator, author, and nuclear disarmament advocate. He served as the third president and then honorary president of the Soka Gakkai, the largest of Japan's new religious movements.: 5 Ikeda is the founding president of the Soka Gakkai International …

WebJapanese new religions are new religious movements established in Japan.In Japanese, they are called shinshūkyō (新宗教) or shinkō shūkyō (新興宗教).Japanese scholars classify all religious organizations founded since the middle of the 19th century as "new religions"; thus, the term refers to a great diversity and number of organizations. Most came into …

WebThe Kingdom of the Cults, first published in 1965, is a reference book of the Christian countercult movement in the United States, written by Baptist minister and counter-cultist Walter Ralston Martin. As of 2019, the book is in its sixth updated edition (hardback ISBN 9780764232657).. Summary. Martin examines a large number of new religious …

WebBlack Hebrew Israelites (also called Hebrew Israelites, Black Hebrews, Black Israelites, and African Hebrew Israelites) are groups of African Americans who falsely believe that they are the descendants of the ancient Israelites.Some sub-groups believe that Native and Latin Americans are descendants of the Israelites as well. Black Hebrew Israelites combine …

WebDiscordianism is a religion or philosophy/paradigm centered on Eris, a.k.a. Discordia, the Goddess of chaos.Discordianism uses archetypes or ideals associated with her. It was founded after the 1963 publication of its "holy book," the Principia Discordia, written by Greg Hill with Kerry Wendell Thornley, the two working under the pseudonyms Malaclypse the …