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創価学会インターナショナル | |
 Soka Gakkai International flag | |
| Abbreviation | SGI |
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| Formation | January 26, 1975 |
| Headquarters | Tokyo, Japan |
Revenue | donations and investments |
| Website | www |
Soka Gakkai International (SGI) is an international Nichiren Buddhist organization founded in 1975 by Daisaku Ikeda, as an umbrella organization of Soka Gakkai, which claims approximately 12 million adherents in 192 countries and territories as of 2017,[1] more than 1.5 million of whom resided outside of Japan as of 2012.[2] It characterizes itself as a support network for practitioners of Nichiren Buddhism and a global Buddhist movement for "peace, education, and cultural exchange."[3] SGI is also a non-governmental organization (NGO) in consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council since 1983.[4]
- ^ Gebert, Andrew. "Soka Gakkai". Oxford Bibliographies. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
- ^ McLaughlin, Levi (2012). Prohl, Inken; Nelson, John (eds.). Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Religions. Brill. p. 269. ISBN 978-90-04-23436-9.
Today, the group has a self-declared membership of 8.27 million households in Japan and more than 1.5 million adherents in 192 countries abroad under its overseas umbrella organization Soka Gakkai International, or SGI. Recent scholarship challenges theses figures and points to a figure in the neighborhood of two percent of the Japanese population.
- ^ Marshall, Katherine. Global Institutions of Religion: Ancient Movers, Modern Shakers. Routledge. ISBN 9781136673580.
- ^ "UN Office for Disarmament Affairs Meets Youth Representatives of Soka Gakkai Japan and of SGI-USA Engaged in Disarmament Issues". United Nations. Retrieved 15 August 2015.