September 2021 Living Buddhism

Deep down, I feel nothing but appreciation for each person and experience in my life. All I want to do is encourage each individual I meet. I’m Hiro Nozuka from New York.

This monthly encouragement by Ikeda Sensei was originally published in the August 2021 Daibyakurenge, the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal. I once shared the following words of Nichiren Daishonin with our dedicated statistics department members, whose careful and accurate behind-the-scenes efforts have been crucial to the development of kosen-rufu: “Though the 4,994,828 men and women

750 Years Since the Tatsunokuchi Persecution by Daisaku Ikeda

Ikeda Wisdom Academy—Advanced Study for SGI-USA Youth Division

by SGI Vice President Hiromasa Ikeda

Chapter Summary On October 10, 1978, Shin’ichi Yamamoto met John Kenneth Galbraith, an economist and professor emeritus at Harvard University. The two formed a friendship at this meeting through their frank exchange of ideas. The next day, Shin’ichi traveled to Osaka’s Joto Ward to attend a meeting commemorating the 700th anniversary of the Atsuhara Persecution,

Chapter Summary On November 18, 1978, Shin’ichi Yamamoto spoke at the headquarters leaders meeting marking the 48th anniversary of the Soka Gakkai’s founding. Mentioning that the first series of Seven Bells would conclude the following year, he discussed his outlook on the future. The following day, he issued a proposal in which he discussed themes

Chapter Summary In early 1979, Shin’ichi traveled to Tohoku on a guidance trip. Attending a January 12 meeting to commemorate the opening of Mizusawa Culture Center in Iwate prefecture, he encouraged everyone to become pillars of society. Many attending this 1979 meeting went on many years later to play key roles in helping fellow community

Chapter Summary Shin’ichi Yamamoto arrived in Hong Kong on February 3, 1979. The next day he made his first visit to the Kowloon Community Center where he attended a meeting commemorating the 18th anniversary of kosen-rufu activities in the territory. After midnight on February 6, he arrived in New Delhi, India. Later that afternoon, he

This installment, published in the May 19, 2021, Seikyo Shimbun, focuses on passages from Nichiren Daishonin’s writings that Ikeda Sensei discusses in volume 29 of The New Human Revolution. The official English translation of volume 29 will be published at a later date. As such, these excerpts are subject to later revisions. Passage 1 “Always

District Study for September

Illustrations by Leo Matsuda

“This I will state. Let the gods forsake me. Let all persecutions assail me. Still I will give my life for the sake of the Law.” (“The Opening of the Eyes,” The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, vol. 1, p. 280) Background When he wrote these lines, Nichiren Daishonin was facing the greatest difficulty in his

Ikeda Sensei’s Lecture Series [68]

Ikeda Sensei has had dialogues with leading figures throughout the world to advance peace. To date, more than 80 of his dialogues have been published in book form. This series highlights one dialogue a month. The following excerpts are from Reflections on the Global Civilization (pp. 162–63), a dialogue between Daisaku Ikeda and Majid Tehranian,