Happy SGI Day ✨️🎉 We celebrate this special day with SGI members in 192 countries and territories worldwide! On January 26, 1975, at the First World Peace Conference in Guam inaugurating the SGI, SGI President Daisaku Ikeda called out: “Rather than seeking to bring your own lives to bloom, devote yourselves to planting the seeds of peace throughout the world. And I vowed to do the same.” With this conviction, SGI members have endeavored to build trust in their local communities and plant seeds

🎉🎊🎉January 26 is SGI Day—the day in 1975 on which the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) was inaugurated 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 of an increasing international membership. It was then Soka Gakkai President Daisaku Ikeda’s vision to make Guam—a site of fierce conflict and tragedy during World War II—the symbolic starting point for this movement of ordinary in

Please enjoy this video!! The following performance by Soka Gakkai members in Europe was recorded for the Soka Gakkai’s World Youth General Meeting in September. Amidst the dire global pandemic, the Soka Gakkai youth of Europe are committed to shining the light of hope to the world. For a perspective from the front line of the situation in the UK, see this interview with SGI-UK member Dame Claire Bertschinger of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: "The crisis we are facing now is

“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