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Toda Jōsei

Japanese philosopher

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contribution to Sōka-gakkai

  • In Sōka-gakkai

    His chief disciple, Toda Jōsei, revived the organization in 1946, renaming it Sōka-gakkai.

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    In Buddhism: Nichiren

    …Sōka-gakkai, under the leadership of Toda Jōsei (1900–58), grew rapidly through a technique of evangelism called shakubuku (Japanese: “break and subdue”), in which the resistance of the other person is destroyed by forceful argument. Although its practice of shakubuku was curtailed by Ikeda Daisaku, the society’s third president, Sōka-gakkai continued…

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