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In 2019, the SGI-USA will join members around the world in earnestly studying SGI President Ikeda’s The New Human Revolution to both eternalize the mentor’s teachings and transmit them to future generations. Living Buddhism will aid this effort by publishing a monthly study guide, starting from its January 2019 issue. To celebrate this new departure,

The following is SGI President Ikeda’s remarks at a meeting in Tokyo on Jan. 2, 1998, his 70th birthday. This was originally published in the Jan. 23, 1998, World Tribune. As a famous adage goes, “A person who bravely and vigorously exerts himself is stronger than the greatest multitude.” Strength is not a question of

This essay was originally published in the Jan. 4, 1998, Seikyo Shimbun, the Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper. A new year. The sun of a grand state of being rises high. On the second day of the new year, I celebrate the start of the Year of Victory of the People (1998) with my dear and

In 2019, the SGI-USA will join members around the world in earnestly studying SGI President Ikeda’s The New Human Revolution to both eternalize the mentor’s teachings and transmit them to future generations. Living Buddhism will aid this effort by publishing a monthly study guide, starting from its January 2019 issue. To celebrate this new departure,

Ikeda Sensei’s 2019 New Year’s Message

This monthly encouragement by SGI President Daisaku Ikeda was originally publishedin the December 2018 issue of the Daibyakurenge, the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal. Though unseen, the Buddhas and bodhisattvas throughout the universe are solemnly watching all the efforts we are making in our Buddhist practice. That is why absolutely nothing that we do in