The educator Tsunesaburo Makiguchi founds the Soka Kyoiku Gakkai, the seed of the Soka Gakkai, on Nichiren teaching joined to his philosophy of value creation; after the war it grows under Josei Toda and Daisaku Ikeda into Japan's largest lay Buddhist movement and a global one.
Tagged: Buddhist Nichiren Buddhism Soka Gakkai
The Event
- Date
- 1930 (exact)
- Era
- Modern; Standard periodization of Buddhist history
- Location
- Tokyo; today Japan
- Traditions
- Buddhism
- Streams
- Nichiren Buddhism, Soka Gakkai
- Key figures
- Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, Josei Toda
Connections
- Nichiren proclaims the daimoku; descends from
Primary Sources
- Makiguchi, Soka Kyoiku Taikei
Secondary Sources
- Stone, Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism (Hawaii, 1999)
- Buswell and Lopez, The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton, 2014)
Provenance: HIST-0432; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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