PL Kyodan (short for "Perfect Liberty Kyodan"), or the Church of Perfect Liberty (パーフェクト リバティー教団, Pāfekuto Ribatii Kyōdan), is a Japanese shinshūkyō (new religious movement) founded in 1924 by Tokuharu Miki (御木徳一; 1871–1938), who was a priest in the Ōbaku sect of Zen Buddhism.
[6] Most of the parishes are located in Japan, but due to the active missionary work in the 1960s PL was established in South America and the United States as well.
1970 saw the construction of the 600-foot-tall (180 m) PL Peace Tower, a monument to all the people who have died in war, from the beginning of time.
[1] Miki is also the vice president of Shinshuren, the Federation of New Religious Organizations of Japan.
[7] The second Patriarch, Tokuchika Miki, visited the Holy See three times, and met two popes to improve inter-religious cooperation.