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Article: Relating the traditional to the new age
New Straits Times;  July 29, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Noor interviews Sulak Sivaraksa, a lay Buddhist activist on the challenges facing their...cultural communities in the present. The lay Buddhist activist Sulak Sivaraksa was invited...politics and economics. FARISH: You are a lay Buddhist thinker and social activist, which means...

Article: Japanese Justice Minister Resigns
Xinhua English Newswire;  October 9, 1995 ;     304 words ......Diet questioning over an unreported personal loan from a lay Buddhist group. Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama accepted his resignation...received from his electoral body Rissho Koseikai -- a large lay Buddhist organization. The loan was given to him in exchange for assurances...

Article: Singapore Buddhist Group Supports Afghan Relief Effort.
PR Newswire;  November 30, 2001 ;     288 words ......Association , a constituent organization of the international lay Buddhist group Soka Gakkai International (SGI), has collected S$20...and shelter. The fund-raising drive is the second that the lay Buddhist organization in Singapore has coordinated with the local...

Article: Lay Buddhist Group Aids Japanese Earthquake Victims.
PR Newswire;  October 28, 2004 ;     406 words ......over 2,000 and destroyed over 6,000 homes, the Soka Gakkai lay Buddhist association has pooled its resources to offer emergency aid...injured. Soka Gakkai is part of the Soka Gakkai International lay Buddhist association which has a total of 12 million members in 190...

Article: Op-Ed: 'The Cruel Waste of War'
U.S. Newswire;  August 8, 2005 ;     678 words ......Daisaku Ikeda, president of the Soka Gakkai International lay Buddhist association: The Cruel Waste of War By Daisaku Ikeda Sixty...Daisaku Ikeda is president of the Soka Gakkai International lay Buddhist association and founder of Soka University, the Toda Institute...

Article: LAY BUDDHIST GROUP AIDS JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS.
AsiaPulse News;  October 29, 2004 ;     434 words ......over 2,000 and destroyed over 6,000 homes, the Soka Gakkai lay Buddhist association has pooled its resources to offer emergency aid...injured. Soka Gakkai is part of the Soka Gakkai International lay Buddhist association which has a total of 12 million members in 190...

Article: Buddhist temple coming to Kettering Shinnyo-en is a lay Buddhist organization serving the needs of Shinnyo-en followers throughout the United States
Dayton Daily News;  June 6, 2007 ;     222 words ......members of Shinnyo-en to build a Buddhist temple at 5727 Bigger Road, the city's chief building official said. Shinnyo-en is a lay Buddhist organization serving the needs of Shinnyo-en followers and their communities throughout the U.S. When the $300,000 project...

Article: A Theravada code of conduct for good Buddhists: the Upasakamanussavinaya.(Critical essay)
The Journal of the American Oriental Society;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......which will be used here, means a code of conduct (vinaya) for people (manussa) who are lay Buddhist practitioners (upasaka) or for people and lay Buddhist practitioners. The term upasaka is defined in the twelfth-century Upasakajanalamkara...

Article: Globalisation is about profit, not freedom
New Straits Times;  July 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ......own religious and cultural communities in the present. The lay Buddhist activist Sulak Sivaraksa was invited to speak on the challenges...the 1980s and 1990s, you were regarded as one of the major lay Buddhist "reformists" calling for a serious re-thinking of Buddhist...

Article: Display by Buddhist group educates about violence.(LOCAL)
The Record (Kitchener, Ontario);  March 18, 2009 ;     75 words ......with a reception and speeches by Waterloo Mayor Brenda Halloran and Tony Meers, general director of SGI Canada, at 2 p.m. next Wednesday. Soka Gakkai is a large lay Buddhist organization that some in Japan have criticized for cultish tendencies.

Article: Photographer-poet promotes peace
Sunday Star-Times;  November 3, 1996 ;     201 words ......around the globe -- he's their leader, their connection to the mission of world peace through cultural exchange. He heads the lay Buddhist organisation Soka Gakkai International, which started in New Zealand in 1975 and has about 500 followers here. Dialogue With...

Article: Protestant Character of Modern Buddhist Movements.
Buddhist-Christian Studies;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Nichiren Buddhism, as practiced in the Soka Gakkai (SG)? SG is a lay Buddhist organization which is, as such, involved extensively in secular...Aspects of the Movement It is generally well known that the lay Buddhist organization, SG, as a whole has initiated wide and multifaceted...

Article: Centrefold: Sprouting dogma: Prepare yourselves for the trance of a lifetime
The Independent - London;  August 26, 1994 ;     302 words ......reductions in premature death due to cancer and heart disease". All of which must have been a blessing in ink for Nigerian prince, lay Buddhist monk, dance musician and general peddlar of peace Keni St George. Not only does he get to live longer, he receives scientific...

Article: SOKA GAKKAI WINS LIBEL SUITS AGAINST JAPANESE TABLOID SHUKAN SHINCHO.
AsiaPulse News;  November 29, 2002 ;     388 words ......suit over two Shukan Shincho articles which claimed that the lay Buddhist group had indulged in land speculation in Tokyo's North Shinjuku...corroborating his allegations. Soka Gakkai International is a lay Buddhist association with 12 million members in over 180 countries...