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Using The New Human Revolution as a compass for victory

The May Commemorative Contribution Activity embodies our vow to practice and spread the Mystic Law, expressing gratitude for the profound benefits we have received through Buddhist practice. Beyond personal appreciation, it serves as a means to financially sustain and expand the kosen-rufu movement, ensuring that future generations have access to the transformative teachings of Nichiren

Please base your monthly discussion meeting study on one of the following: 1) Buddhist Concepts (pp. 40–41) 2) Writings for Discussion Meetings (pp. 42–43) 3) Material from any recent issue of the World Tribune or Living Buddhism Buddhist Concepts The Courage to Keep Moving Forward: The Six Difficult and Nine Easy Acts Humans today can

Ikeda Wisdom Academy members: • are group through national youth leaders and all student division members.• should have their own copy of The Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra, vol. 4.• are encouraged to read the assigned material before each meeting. April Syllabus: The Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra, vol. 4, pp. 29–53 • Part One:

Starting this year, the student division is now a stand-alone division that encompasses youth between the ages of 18–25 attending college. With this change, the SGI-USA appointed new student division leaders, Dee Gopi and Koichi Onogi, in January. In the following interview, the new leaders spoke about the significance of the student division and their

Installment 23: ‘Letter to Shimoyama’

“Enjoy!” This is the Aloha spirit. My eyes are drawn and riveted to a particular spot on the beach. There, from the sand, emerges the figure of a white horse. Who sculpted it? It seems as if it would gallop gracefully away at any moment. I bow with respect and appreciation to the nameless beach

I, Nichiren, am the only person in all Japan who understands this [that the other Buddhist schools proffer slanderous teachings and cause people to fall into the evil paths of existence]. But if I utter so much as a word concerning it, then parents, brothers, and teachers will surely censure me, and the ruler of

The following are excerpts from Ikeda Sensei’s speech at the First Nationwide Young Men’s and Young Women’s Division Leaders Meeting held at the Tokyo Toda Memorial Auditorium in Sugamo, Tokyo, on Jan. 11, 1997. Video footage of the speech was broadcast during the most recent Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting on Jan. 11, 2025. It

We might have a laundry list of regrets, but we don’t have to let them determine our lives today or tomorrow. In this episode, Jesse Thompson, of Columbus, Indiana, shares how he used his Buddhist practice to overcome shame and create the future he’d always dreamed of. Click here to watch or listen to the

Registration is now open for the SGI-USA Junior High School and High School conferences, which will be held separately for the first time this summer. High School Conference, June 27–30, 2025, Soka University of America, Aliso Viejo, Calif. This conference is open to SGI-USA members in high school and those who will enter high school

In the wake of the Eaton Fire, I recall a lesson learned in a vow to become a doctor.

Three keys to winning over any obstacle based first and foremost on prayer.

With the SGI-USA’s 2025 focus on fostering friendship, building community and raising successors, the World Tribune sat down with Tanushree Salvi-Young, the Northwest Mountain Region young women’s leader, to hear about how members in Boise are building friendship and community. World Tribune:Tanushree, thank you for talking with us. Please tell us a little about your

The Soka Gakkai’s network of life-to-life bonds was built through the efforts to personally encourage one person after another.

The following message by Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada was translated from the February 2025 issue of the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal, Daibyakurenge. The frontline of worldwide kosen-rufu is the discussion meeting. This month, youth-focused discussion meetings are being held across Japan. Let’s take this opportunity to joyfully celebrate the 125th anniversary of the

From 1983 to 2022, Ikeda Sensei issued 40 consecutive annual peace proposals on Jan. 26 to mark the SGI’s establishment in 1975. In these peace proposals, Sensei explored the interrelation between core Buddhist concepts and the diverse challenges the world faces—such as disarmament, environmental degradation and human rights—and provided concrete suggestions toward their resolution. In

Ikeda Sensei’s proposals could be said to have started in 1966, when in a speech he called for an immediate ceasefire in the Vietnam War. Then came his Proposal for the Normalization of Sino-Japanese Relations in 1968. Over the next two decades, Sensei submitted several other proposals, including two to the first and second U.N.

How Korean entertainment and television became tools of soft power.

Stories from literature on why good friends are life’s greatest treasure.