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	<title>Religion News Blog &#187; Soka Gakkai</title>
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		<title>Seeking prosperity through inner peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Putting a Buddha brand name on everything isn't enough for Woody Hochswender. He advocates Nichiren Buddhism, one strand among hundreds of Buddhist sects, as the superhighway to inner peace and outer prosperity.]]></description>
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		<title>Buddsters find individual happiness through Buddhism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many teenagers are adapting Buddhist practices in their lives as chanting and meditation become avenues for "de-stressing" and finding personal fulfillment.]]></description>
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		<title>Awakening to Buddhism</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leaders explain increasing appeal in U.S. of Asian religion
Buddhism, experts say, is the fastest-growing major religion in the United States. Adherents.com, an independent Web site with a reputation for reliable religious statistics, reports that in the 1990s, Buddhism in the United States grew 170 percent to more than 1.5 million followers.
Several Buddhist groups exist in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Political pragmatism guides Japan Buddhist sect</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO, AUGUST, 31:  They are pacifists who make prayer an important part of their daily lives, but members of Japan&#8217;s most politically active Buddhist sect say pragmatism comes before religious principle in the country&#8217;s September 11 general election.
Soka Gakkai, whose followers launched New Komeito, the junior partner in Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi&#8217;s coalition government, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>University considers selling property in Santa Monica Mountains</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2004 22:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES &#8211; A private university financed by a Buddhist sect will consider selling its 588-acre property in the Santa Monica Mountains to be used as park land, a county supervisor said Thursday.
Zev Yaroslavsky met with officials from Soka University of America and the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy earlier this week after learning the university [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NPR&#8217;s New Religions Survey, Part III: Soka Gakkai</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2004 23:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
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As part of our series on new religious movements, NPR&#8217;s Mandalit del Barco explores a modern version of Buddhism known as Soka Gakkai. It&#8217;s an import from Asia, brought to the United States by Japanese war brides. In the 1960s, it caught on with anti-war hippies. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s LDP puts faith in religious partner</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2003 06:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twice a day, seven days a week, Mie Yamada sits before an altar in her Tokyo home and reads from the Lotus Sutra, a Buddhist text.
In a country that has largely lost religion, it is a ritual that marks the 31-year-old Ms Yamada as a follower of Soka Gakkai, a lay Buddhist organisation that is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Documentary on Controversial Japanese Buddhist Group to Air on PBS Stations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2003 21:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Management Group, via PRNewswire, Apr. 18, 2003 (Press Release)
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   &#8220;Embattled Buddhists: Under the Rising Sun,&#8221; a one-hour documentary on
Japanese Buddhist group Soka Gakkai produced by the Los Angeles-based Global Management Group Inc. (GMG), will be broadcast in two parts on Sunday April 20 and 27 on &#8220;Asian America&#8221; &#8212; a nationally syndicated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soka&#8217;s start hasn&#8217;t been textbook</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2003 19:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within the campus&#8217; beautiful walls there is roiling about alleged sectarianism and secrecy. 
Orange County Register, Feb. 28, 2003
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By SUSAN GILL VARDON, The Orange County Register
ALISO VIEJO – One quarter of Soka University&#8217;s original 20 faculty members have left or will leave by June as the university founded by a Buddhist sect struggles to balance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buddhists seek ultimate truth of universe</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Topeka Capital Journal, Jan. 25, 2003
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Publication date: 2003-01-25
Arrival time: 2003-02-12
PHIL ANDERSON/The Capital-Journal
At 3 p.m. on a recent Sunday afternoon, 18 adherents of the Soka Gakkai International school of Buddhism gathered in a midtown Topeka home to chant, discuss their beliefs and spread the word about their organization to several visitors in attendance.
Facing the front of [...]]]></description>
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