SŌKA GAKKAI is a large religious organization that rapidly increased its strength after World War II. Official membership figures in December 2003 included approximately 8,210,000 households in Japan and 1,502,000 individuals in other countries....

Sōka Gakkai International ("International Value-Creation Society"; also, SGI) is the international umbrella organization for Sōka Gakkai-affiliated lay organizations in over 190 countries. SGI has over 15 million members, who practice Sōka Gakkai's...

Soka Gakkai International, the Buddhist sect to which Mariane Pearl belongs, was founded in Japan in 1930 as a branch of the ancient Nichiren Buddhist tradition. It has 12 million members in 165 countries. As a lay organization, Soka Gakkai has no priests,...

The Soka Gakkai International (SGI) is a lay organization that developed out of Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism, one of the traditions within Japanese Mahayana Buddhism. The thirteenth-century monk, Nichiren, challenged the then (and still) popular belief that salvation entails entering the "Pure Land" after...