11/18
Soka Gakkai Founding Day
In 1930, founding Soka Gakkai President Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, together with Josei Toda, published the first volume of Soka kyoikugaku taikei (The System of Value-Creating Education). This date later became known as the founding day of the Soka Gakkai. (See The New Human Revolution, vol. 23, “Bold Struggle” chapter; and NHR-27, “Justice” chapter)
10th Anniversary of the Completion of the Hall of the Great Vow for Kosen-rufu
In November 2013, the Hall of the Great Vow for Kosen-rufu, named by Ikeda Sensei to convey the vow to lead all people to happiness, opened in Shinanomachi, Tokyo. (See the November 2023 Living Buddhism)
11/28
Soka Gakkai Spiritual Independence Day
On this day in 1991, the Nichiren Shoshu priesthood—which had been plotting to separate the members from their mentor, Ikeda Sensei, and destroy the Soka Gakkai—sent the Soka Gakkai a Notice of Excommunication. This day marked our freedom from a priesthood that hindered the advancement of kosen-rufu and the day of spiritual independence from which the Soka Gakkai took flight as a world religion. (See NHR-16, “Soaring” chapter; and NHR-30, “Vow” chapter)
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