METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SINTERED BODY FOR FORMING SINTERED MAGNET, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PERMANENT MAGNET USING SINTERED BODY FOR FORMING SINTERED MAGNET

Provided are: a method for manufacturing a sintered body as a base of a sintered magnet, the method improving followability of a formed body to a sintering die during sintering and also preventing occurrence of cracks in the formed body; and a method for manufacturing a permanent magnet. Specifically, a magnet raw material is pulverized into magnet powder, the magnet powder pulverized and a binder are mixed, thereby to form a compound 12. The, a formed body 13, obtained by forming the compound 12 formed, is sintered by heating up the same to a firing temperature in a pressed state at a predetermined heat-up rate, and by keeping the same at the firing temperature. In the sintering step, the pressure value for pressing the formed body 13 is set to: less than 3 MPa from the start of heating up of the formed body 13 to a predetermined timing during heating up of the formed body 13; and 3 MPa or more after the timing.