Its current leader is
Miyamoto Takeyasu who is also president of the
Arigatou Foundation. The organisation’s headquarters is in
Tokyo and by its own account it has 957.000 members, most of which are in Japan. Reciting the
Lotus Sutra as a means of moral self-cultivation and ancestor veneration are said to be fundamental to its religious practice.[5]
References
^Montgomery, Daniel (1991). Fire in the Lotus, The Dynamic Religion of Nichiren, London: Mandala,
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^Pokorny, Lukas (2011).
Neue religiöse Bewegungen in Japan heute: ein Überblick [New Religious Movements in Japan Today: a Survey]. In: Hödl, Hans Gerald and Veronika Futterknecht, ed. Religionen nach der Säkularisierung. Festschrift für Johann Figl zum 65. Geburtstag, Wien: LIT, p.190
Bibliography
Robert Kisala: Myochikai Kyodan. In: Peter Clarke (Hrsg.): Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements.
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