Soka Gakkai Memorial Service Held for President Daisaku Ikeda
Soka Gakkai International – USA
by momalley
4M ago
On November 23, 2023, a Soka Gakkai Memorial Service for Daisaku Ikeda, Honorary President of Soka Gakkai and President of Soka Gakkai International (SGI), was conducted from 1:30 p.m. at the Toda Memorial Auditorium in Sugamo, Tokyo. The service was broadcast live to 1,000 venues throughout the 47 prefectures of Japan. Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada, General Director Shigeo Hasegawa and national Women’s Division Leader Kimiko Nagaishi attended the service with other divisional and regional representatives from around the country. President Harada led the recitation of portions of ..read more
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SGI President Daisaku Ikeda Passes Away
Soka Gakkai International – USA
by ainoue
4M ago
Daisaku Ikeda, Honorary President of the Soka Gakkai and President of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI), passed away from natural causes at his residence in Shinjuku, Tokyo, on the evening of Nov. 15. He was 95. A funeral has been held with members of his immediate family; the time and date of commemorative services will be announced shortly. Ikeda Sensei was born in Tokyo on Jan. 2, 1928. He was inaugurated as third president of the Soka Gakkai in 1960 and for almost two decades led the lay Buddhist movement in dynamic growth that also saw important international development. He beca ..read more
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New Beginnings
Soka Gakkai International – USA
by jhsu
4M ago
by Sue Wolk Hempstead, N.Y. Frankly I was shocked when I heard about the wedding. “Everyone was shocked,” my childhood friend assured me. “Everywhere, mouths popping open.” They’d expected a Jewish ceremony, of course—that’s how the bride and most everybody in our hometown of Oceanside, New York, had been raised. But the vows had been Buddhist. I blanched. How could she?  I didn’t mean convert from Judaism; my own family was never particularly observant. No, how could she be mean and a Buddhist?  “Susan’s changed,” my friend implored for the thousandth time. “She really has, Sue; y ..read more
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Sign Me Up
Soka Gakkai International – USA
by jhsu
4M ago
by Carla and Martin Gelbaum Reno, Nevada Martin Gelbaum: Nobody at my first SGI meeting had a term for the symptoms described by the Vietnam veteran there. All he knew was that these symptoms, the ones he’d brought home from the front—sudden outbursts and hostile feelings—had completely vanished since practicing Nichiren Buddhism. Others shared their own “human revolutions,” personal stories of deep character transformation.  Just a few years earlier, both my parents had begun to talk of taking their lives. As their child, I felt their suffering as my own.  I didn’t know if Buddhis ..read more
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Youth Representative Attends World Youth Development Forum
Soka Gakkai International – USA
by ainoue
4M ago
From October 30 to November 1, the World Youth Development Forum was held in Beijing under the theme “Youth Strength for Solidarity and Innovation: Striving Together for Sustainable Development.” Shuichi Minami, chair of the Soka Gakkai Youth Peace Committee in Japan, attended the three-day forum, which brought together some two thousand participants from 130 countries in person and online. The peace initiative “Soka Global Action 2030” by Soka Gakkai youth in Japan was selected as one of the “100 Excellence Actions for Global Youth Development.” An exhibition about the one hundred initiative ..read more
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The Conditions for Victory
Soka Gakkai International – USA
by ainoue
4M ago
Living Buddhism: Thank you, Karen, for speaking with us. We hear your brother, Tim, introduced you to Buddhism in the 1970s. Could you tell us more about how you started practicing? Karen Dennis: Tim called our first family meeting. We’d never had one, but we all came around our parents’ dining table in Detroit, expectant, a little skeptical, looking at him like, Well? “Well,” says Tim, “I’ve found the key to happiness.” He didn’t look crazy. He looked serious and assured. He drove all the way here for this? I thought. Above the heckling of my siblings, “All right,” I said. “Give me the key ..read more
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Climate Action Exhibition Held in Liguria
Soka Gakkai International – USA
by ainoue
4M ago
On October 20, Soka Gakkai Italy held an opening ceremony for the climate action exhibition “Heritage of Life” in the town of Chiavari in Liguria. Chiavari Mayor Federico Messuti attended the event. The exhibition was created based on President Daisaku Ikeda’s 2012 environment proposal titled “For a Sustainable Global Society: Learning for Empowerment and Leadership.” The exhibition is also part of the “If I change, the world will change” campaign launched by Soka Gakkai Italy in 2020 to raise awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals.  The post Climate Action Exhibition Held ..read more
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SGI at Conference on Religion and Sustainable Development
Soka Gakkai International – USA
by ainoue
4M ago
From October 17 to 19, Nobuyuki Asai, director for Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Affairs of the SGI (Soka Gakkai International), participated in and gave opening remarks at the Annual Forum on Religion and Sustainable Development 2023 hosted by the International Partnership on Religion and Sustainable Development (PaRD) in Berlin, Germany. On October 19, Mr. Asai facilitated a breakout session on how religious groups can collaborate with government agencies during complex situations. Participants also discussed the role of faith actors in humanitarian assistance and deve ..read more
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Healing Action
Soka Gakkai International – USA
by jhsu
4M ago
by Miki DePalm San Diego  In the early ’90s, few knew or spoke of post-traumatic stress disorder. When my first husband, a U.S. Marine, returned from a year’s deployment to Somalia, I didn’t understand the changes that had taken place in him. Mostly, we got along, but the occasional outburst made me wary. One, in the summer of ‘94, frightened me badly enough for me to take our son, Jymmia, and run away.  For months, a friend had been encouraging me to chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, but I’d always turned her down. In my desperation I called to say, “I am ready to change my life.” That w ..read more
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Statement on the Israel-Palestine Situation
Soka Gakkai International – USA
by ainoue
5M ago
As the confrontation involving Israel and the Gaza Strip and its attendant risks rapidly escalates, we are deeply concerned for the safety of those who have been taken hostage and heartbroken by the loss of civilian lives, including women and children, on an unprecedented scale. In the intensifying conflict, countless ordinary people have lost the basis of their livelihoods and been plunged into a grave humanitarian crisis. As Buddhists whose core value is the dignity of life, we sincerely pray for an immediate ceasefire, and hope that efforts will be focused on ensuring people’s safety and ..read more
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