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The Soka Gakkai’s network of life-to-life bonds was built through the efforts to personally encourage one person after another.

With the SGI-USA’s 2025 focus on fostering friendship, building community and raising successors, the World Tribune sat down with Tanushree Salvi-Young, the Northwest Mountain Region young women’s leader, to hear about how members in Boise are building friendship and community. World Tribune:Tanushree, thank you for talking with us. Please tell us a little about your

Three keys to winning over any obstacle based first and foremost on prayer.

In the wake of the Eaton Fire, I recall a lesson learned in a vow to become a doctor.

Registration is now open for the SGI-USA Junior High School and High School conferences, which will be held separately for the first time this summer. High School Conference, June 27–30, 2025, Soka University of America, Aliso Viejo, Calif. This conference is open to SGI-USA members in high school and those who will enter high school

We might have a laundry list of regrets, but we don’t have to let them determine our lives today or tomorrow. In this episode, Jesse Thompson, of Columbus, Indiana, shares how he used his Buddhist practice to overcome shame and create the future he’d always dreamed of. Click here to watch or listen to the

The following are excerpts from Ikeda Sensei’s speech at the First Nationwide Young Men’s and Young Women’s Division Leaders Meeting held at the Tokyo Toda Memorial Auditorium in Sugamo, Tokyo, on Jan. 11, 1997. Video footage of the speech was broadcast during the most recent Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting on Jan. 11, 2025. It

Stories from literature on why good friends are life’s greatest treasure.

It was already late in the afternoon, but at that time of the year the European sky remains light until quite late. But suddenly the sky darkened with clouds, and heavy rain began to fall. It tapped on the rooftops with a thousand fingers, like a pianist playing a lively sonata. It fell like curtains

This excerpt is from part 4 of Ikeda Sensei’s lecture “To My Friends of Each Division Engaged in Our Shared Struggle.” It was originally published in the March 2020 Living Buddhism, p. 58.  The Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955) deplored how in modern times people had lost their way in life: On the

Ikeda Wisdom Academy members: • are district through national youth leaders and all student division members.• should have their own copy of The Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra, vol. 4. • are encouraged to read the assigned material before each meeting. March Syllabus: The Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra, vol. 4, pp. 3–28 • Part

Please base your monthly discussion meeting study on one of the following: 1) Buddhist Concepts (pp. 46–47) 2) Writings for Discussion Meetings (pp. 48–49)3) Material from any recent issue of the World Tribune or Living Buddhism Buddhist Concepts Opening Our Eyes to Nichiren’s Fearlessness and Compassion  What does it mean to open our eyes in

by Amelia Gonzalez Tesch, Kenichi Hackman and Shota OkajimaSGI-USA Youth Leaders Thank you for all your support of the youth division thus far in 2025, The Year of Soaring Higher Toward a Youthful Soka Gakkai Worldwide. As you may already know, our primary focus this year is strengthening our discussion meetings by making a concentrated

Encountering Buddhism after my father’s passing, I make the most of the promise I made him. I am Sumedh Kaul, of Boston.

This section features Ikeda Sensei’s seminal guidance to the members of the United States. The following is an excerpt of his speech given at the First SGI-USA Women’s Division Meeting, held at Soka University of Los Angeles, Calabasas, California, February 27, 1990. The full speech can be found in My Dear Friends in America, fourth

Gongyo—which includes reciting portions of the “Expedient Means” and “Life Span of the Thus Come One” chapters of the Lotus Sutra morning and evening—is part of daily practice for Nichiren Buddhists. This series carries Ikeda Sensei’s explanations of gongyo, section by section. The full text can be found in The Heart of the Lotus Sutra,

SGI-USA representatives take part in 13th annual Latte Peace Festival on Jan. 25, 2025 at Tamuning Municipal Park in Guam. The community event, co-founded by the SGI-USA, aims to inspire action for global peace. Latte stones (pronounced lah-tee) are remnants of ancient CHamoru culture in Guam and symbolize the people’s strength, identity and resilience.  Awards

The Soka Gakkai International 50th Anniversary Commemorative Meeting, held on Guam, underscores the people’s network of human harmony.

Planting seeds of peace in Guam, I unite my family and expand it, too.

From January to February, all seven other planets in our solar system are lining up across the night sky before dawn or after sunset. They include Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn—as bright points of light, all visible to the naked eye—with Uranus and Neptune visible only with a telescope. With the next visible planet