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Buddhist new religious movements

  • NavayanaBhimrao Ramji Ambedkar announced his intent to leave Hinduism in 1935. This declaration marked the start of a long journey through world religions.
  • Risshō Kōsei KaiOn the 5th of March 1938, Nikkyō Niwano and Myōkō Naganuma stood before thirty people in a private home to launch Risshō Kōsei Kai.
  • Soka GakkaiOn the 18th of November 1930, educators Tsunesaburō Makiguchi and Jōsei Toda established a group called Soka Kyoiku Gakkai.
  • Shinnyo-enIn the winter of 1936, Shinjō Itō and his wife Tomoji began a thirty-day period of austerity in Tachikawa, Tokyo. They had enshrined an image of Acala…
  • Won BuddhismIn the southwest corner of the Korean peninsula, a poor village witnessed the birth of a new spiritual path. Bak Jungbin grew up with only two years of…