Bussho Gonenkai Kyōdan
Bussho Gonenkai Kyōdan ( Japanese 佛所 護 念 会 教 団 ) is a neo-Buddhist movement. It was founded on October 30, 1950 by Kaichi Sekiguchi and his wife Tomino Sekiguchi in Japan . It emerged from the religious community Reiyūkai (Society of Friends of Spirits) of Nichiren Buddhism .
At the center of their belief is the Lotus Sutra . Its third and current president is Noritaka Sekiguchi, the son of the founding couple, and a member of the representative assembly of the revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi .
The number of members varies depending on the source. Membership numbers are based in part on the self-declaration of the community. According to older information, the community has 1,354,662 members. Susumu Shimazono gives the number 2,196,813 for 1990.
Web links
- Official website (Japanese, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ " Our Thinking " (Japanese) - Bussho website, accessed November 17, 2014
- ↑ http://www.adherents.com/Na/Na_96.html
- ↑ Shimazono, Susumu (2004): From Salvation to Spirituality: Popular Religious Movements in Modern Japan. Trans Pacific Press. P. 234f
