August 15, 2024, World Tribune

by Adin StraussSGI-USA General Director Congratulations to all SGI-USA members on the 60th anniversary of the World Tribune! Thinking of this milestone in our people’s movement reminded me of another, which took place within Nichiren Daishonin’s lifetime. In October 1279, Nichiren wrote to his disciples: “The Buddha fulfilled the purpose of his advent in a

To see the actual timeline please click here. Ikeda Sensei made his first visit to the United States in October 1960, opening the way for worldwide kosen-rufu. By his second visit in January 1963, a a burgeoning Civil Rights Movement was exposing injustice, and a nuclear arms race was generating fear of attack from abroad.

To see the actual timeline please click here. In January 1975, Ikeda Sensei joined 158 delegates from 51 countries and territories for the First World Peace Conference at the International Trade Center in Tamuning, Guam. There, the Soka Gakkai International was established, and Sensei selected as its president. It was not happenstance that the SGI

To see the actual timeline please click here. The end of the Cold War saw nations celebrating windfall “peace dividends,” slashed and repurposed military spending to fund education, sanitation, health care and the like. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, symbol of Cold War division, the icy walls dividing the great powers and their

To see the actual timeline please click here. The 21st century arrived on a tide of information. “The digital age” saw the rise of the smartphone, a palm-sized portal into events unfolding from every angle, everywhere on earth, at any time of day. Conversing with study department leaders in the ’90s, Ikeda Sensei touched on

To see the actual timeline please click here. Entering the third decade of the 21st century, Ikeda Sensei spoke of the time’s significance, declaring the next 10 years toward the Soka Gakkai’s centennial “a period of vital importance that will be a turning point for humanity.” Indeed, unprecedented challenges opened the decade—a global pandemic and

A new chapter of history has opened. The sun of Nichiren Buddhism has risen brightly in the skies of the 21st century, and the banner of Soka humanism waves in 192 countries and territories around the globe. Nichiren Daishonin writes: “Can there be any doubt that … [the Law] will be spread far and wide