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The full text of SGI President Ikeda’s 2019 Peace Proposal “Toward a New Era of Peace and Disarmament: A People-Centered Approach” is available at daisakuikeda.org. Or listen to the audio here In it, President Ikeda stresses urgent action toward disarmament and calls on young people to resist feelings of resignation and “meet the severe challenges

SGI representatives join 1,500 leaders for an international conference promoting science, art, culture and peace at the Palace of Conventions in Havana.

With “home visits” and “personal encouragement” as the bywords for the SGI-USA in 2019, this new World Tribune series features SGI-USA leaders who discuss their personal experiences of being home visited, home visiting others and the lessons they’ve learned. by Kevin MoncriefSGI-USA Men’s Leader I recently met with a district men’s leader in Oakland, California.

Those who believe in the Lotus Sutra are as if in winter, but winter always turns to spring. Never, from ancient times on, has anyone seen or heard of winter turning back to autumn. Nor have we ever heard of a believer in the Lotus Sutra who turned into an ordinary person. The sutra reads,

“As long as suffering and misery exist anywhere on our planet, we must continue to weave with rich color and bold creativity the magnificent tapestry of human victory that is kosen-rufu. That is why our mentor-disciple journey to realize the great vow for kosen-rufu will continue forever.” —SGI President Ikeda, from the afterword to The

WESTON, Fla.—One hundred and ninety-three youth representatives from the U.S., Canada and New Zealand confirmed the spirit and significance of studying SGI President Ikeda’s 30-volume lifetime work, The New Human Revolution, at the North America and Oceania Study Conference, led by SGI Vice Study Leader Nobuo Fukase. The conference, held Feb. 1–4 at the Florida

by Mitch Bogen Special to the Tribune Is failure really something to be feared? What is the relationship between success and failure? This task of re-envisioning failure was at the heart of the Dialogue Nights event, held on Jan. 25 at the Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Themed “Failing Forward:

by SGI Vice President Hiromasa Ikeda

Chapter Summary On January 1, 1961, Shin’ichi Yamamoto wrote a waka poem that he presented to his wife, Mineko. It read: On this New Year’s morning, I pray for kosen-rufu in Asia. His next overseas trip, starting on January 28, would be an 18-day journey through Hong Kong, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), India, Burma (now

Aditya Negi Chicago Living Buddhism: Thank you, Aditya, for sharing your experience with us! Starting in January, members around the world embarked on a fresh journey to deeply study SGI President Ikeda’s serialized novel The New Human Revolution. Can you recall a passage that has encouraged you to break through your struggles? Aditya Negi: Yes, in

The Mentor-Disciple Relationship and the Journey of Kosen-rufu

This guidance is from section 24.9 of “The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace” series, published in the September 2017 Living Buddhism, pp. 59–60. In August 53 years ago (in 1947), I became a disciple of second Soka Gakkai President Josei Toda. Soon after joining the Soka Gakkai, I read Nichiren Daishonin’s writing “On Practicing

The following article is the third in a five-part series describing the events leading up to April 24, 1979, when Daisaku Ikeda stepped down as third Soka Gakkai president to protect the members from the perverse machinations of the Nichiren Shoshu priesthood, which sought to wrest control of the lay organization. This incident came to

Part 3: Kosen-rufu and World Peace—The Flowering of a New Humanism

“In . . . the Lotus Sutra, the Bodhisattvas of the Earth emerge dynamically from the earth. Their number is likened to 60,000 times the grains of sand of the Ganges River. This brilliant array of innumerable Bodhisattvas of the Earth, each leading equally innumerable retinues of followers, appears from the depths of the earth.”

Buddhism of the Sun Installment 38

On Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime: SGI President Ikeda’s Lecture Series, Chapters 1 and 2

This installment, published in the December 19, 2018, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, focuses on passages from Nichiren Daishonin’s writings that SGI President Ikeda discussed in volume 3 of The New Human Revolution. Passage 1 “The moon moves from the west eastward, a sign of how the Buddhism of India spread in an easterly direction.

A: In Mahayana Buddhism, having a seeking spirit is the starting point of Buddhist practice. The mind to seek enlightenment, Buddhahood or Buddha wisdom is called the “aspiration for enlightenment.” No matter how long we have engaged in our Buddhist practice, our efforts to keep seeking out the correct way to practice and refresh our

Over 1,600 youth leaders take the Ikeda Wisdom Academy Exam, ready for dynamic advancement in the Year of Soka Victory.