✨November 18, 2025 marks the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Soka Gakkai. Discover the dramatic life of the founding president Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and how the Soka Gakkai became the movement for people’s empowerment it is today. A Legacy of Empowerment ✨: Makiguchi and the Soka Gakkai tells the story of his humble beginnings 🏡, his conversion to Nichiren Buddhism and his death in prison. While Japan was being swept into World War II, Makiguchi fearlessly championed a philosophy that p

6.1K views · 702 reactions | Looking toward November 18, the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Soka Gakkai. https://bit.ly/3kMT7Af —Use this frame for your FB profile, and use the hashtag #Soka90 to share your determinations. Together, let's celebrate November 18 with joyful, victorious hearts! | Soka Gakkai | Facebook

“Centers for Peace and Friendship,” a series introducing SGI culture centers and facilities around the world. The Soka Bodhi Tree Garden is a hub for cultural exchange and the study of Buddhism on the outskirts of Delhi. The garden is home to the biggest cluster of Bodhi (Peepul) trees in India—4,000 in all—and was established on September 12, 1993, by Bharat Soka Gakkai (BSG). On his visit to India one year before in 1992, SGI President Daisaku Ikeda envisioned that the garden, situated on a va

January 26 marks SGI Day. It was on January 26, 1975, that the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) was inaugurated at the First World Peace Conference on the island of Guam. The SGI was founded as a global association to link independent Soka Gakkai constituent organizations around the world and support the faith and Buddhist practice of an increasing international membership. It was then Soka Gakkai President Daisaku Ikeda’s vision to make Guam the symbolic starting point for this movement—a networ

🌎106 youth from around the world gathered in Tokyo for the SGI Youth Training Course from August 31 to September 4.📣 Meet some of the participants as they share what the course means to them.💡 👇 Click the link to find out more about the Soka Gakkai Buddhist organization, and its members, global citizens dedicated to peace.🌈 https://www.sokaglobal.org/about-the-soka-gakkai/at-a-glance/a-global-organization.html Mouvement bouddhiste Soka SGIV Bharat Soka Gakkai #Youth #trainingcourse #SGI | S

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“Centers for Peace and Friendship,” a series introducing SGI culture centers and facilities around the world. The Soka Gakkai Okinawa Training Center in Japan was opened in 1977 on the site of a former US Air Force MACE B nuclear missile base. When SGI President Daisaku Ikeda visited the missile launch complex, he suggested preserving it for the future as a reminder of our obsession with war and making the training center a symbol of world peace. The former base now stands as a monument to world

🎉November 18, 2024, marks the 94th anniversary of the Soka Gakkai’s founding. Learn about its origins, starting with Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, first president of the Soka Gakkai. An educator inspired by Nichiren Buddhism, Makiguchi was passionately dedicated to the reform of the Japanese education system. On November 18, 1930, the first volume of in his series of writings outlining the system of soka (value-creating) pedagogy, was published, laying the foundation for today’s Soka Gakkai. 🌏✨More o