March 20, 2020, World Tribune

This essay from SGI President Ikeda’s series Treasures of the Four Seasons first appeared in the Dec. 1, 2018, issue of Boys and Girls Hope News, the Soka Gakkai’s monthly newspaper for the elementary school division. When the cold winter winds start to blow, swans, known as the “messengers of winter,” make their way to

Translated from the March 3, 2020, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, the Soka Gakkai daily newspaper. by Daisaku Ikeda [March 3 is Doll Festival, or Girls Day in Japan, and is one of its five seasonal festivals.] In reply to a disciple asking about the significance of the five seasonal festivals, Nichiren Daishonin writes that

In the Feb. 21World Tribune, we learned how the 67th high priest of Nichiren Shoshu, Nikken Abe, embodied the third powerful enemy whose function is to orchestrate an effort to dismantle the movement for kosen-rufu. In this article, we will learn about Nikken’s successor, 68th high priest Nichinyo Hayase, who has inherited this role of

by Lauren Patterson22 years oldTorrance, Calif. I was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder when I was 9, which left me feeling so small and miserable. It got to the point where I didn’t want to leave my house, because I felt that people saw me as a joke, just a waste of skin. In high

In the following excerpt from The New Human Revolution, SGI President Ikeda, who appears in the novel as Shin’ichi Yamamoto, offers guidance to student division members about transforming personality traits through Buddhist practice. “Unless we bring out the best sides of our character and inner tendencies, they can often become the cause of unhappiness. We

  Lillian I East Territory Vice Young Women’s Leader Ms. I lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and works as the program manager for the Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue. She is also the North Zone young women’s leader in the SGI-USA. In her new role as the East Territory vice young women’s leader, Ms.