August 15, 2025, World Tribune

Ikeda Sensei gave the following guidance at the New York Culture Center, New York, June 15, 1996. It can also be found in The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 1, revised edition, chapter 10, installment 1, pp. 315–19. In his 1993 lecture at Harvard University, “Mahayana Buddhism and Twenty-First-Century Civilization,” Ikeda Sensei, based

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SGI-USA Publications interns Takako Funaki and Solar Kawabata share what they learned from the 2025 adaptation of the movie Superman and how they feel it resonates with Buddhist practice. Spoiler Alert! The 2025 adaptation of Superman, directed by James Gunn, reimagines the beloved superhero after he suffers his first defeat in battle. For the first

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Roughly a decade ago, James Turrell transformed the the Guggenheim Museum’s famed rotunda—originally designed by Frank Lloyd Wright—into an immersive light environment titled Aten Reign. Suspended beneath the skylight, six translucent, elliptical rings created a layered structure that bathed the space in slowly shifting hues, draping visitors in a meditative glow of color and light.

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