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How we have transformed our financial fortune and fostered youthful successors based on our bodhisattva vow. by Maia Guest and John Plummer Cold Spring, N.Y. World Tribune: Thank you, Maia and John, for sharing your family experience with us! We understand that your life significantly changed in 2011. What happened? John Plummer (husband): In late

Ikeda Sensei’s 2020 New Year’s Message

The new exhibition includes her visit to Soka University in Japan to receive an honorary doctorate. A new major exhibition on the life of Rosa Parks at the Library of Congress (LOC) in Washington, D. C., features her May 1994 visit to Soka University in Japan to receive an honorary doctorate. The panel, which features

Daisaku Ikeda was born in Tokyo on Jan. 2, 1928, the fifth of eight children, to a family of seaweed farmers. Growing up during World War II, he endured firsthand the profound devastations of war, including the death of his eldest brother who was killed in action in Burma (present-day Myanmar). This experience as a

New Year’s Day marks the first day, the first month, the beginning of the year, and the start of spring. A person who celebrates this day will accumulate virtue and be loved by all, just as the moon becomes full gradually, moving from west to east, and as the sun shines more brightly, traveling from east to

The following are profiles of youth who joined the SGI-USA during the 2013 campaign to introduce 3,000 young people to Nichiren Buddhism. This year, as we advance toward our united goal of welcoming 6,000 youth in America, let’s remind ourselves of the powerful impact that we can make on society by introducing even one youth

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In October 2019, Kisun Lee did her first Byakuren shift in Alaska marking the formation of the Byakuren group in the state. She did so out of appreciation for her Buddhist practice, SGI President Ikeda and the members who often travel one to two hours to the SGI-USA Alaska Buddhist Center, in spite of inclement

The New Human Revolution E-Books E-books of volumes 1–8, 23 and 24 of The New Human Revolution are out now at major online booksellers, including amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. E-books for volumes 9–10 and audiobooks for volumes 1—3 will be available in early 2020. The New Human Revolution is SGI President Ikeda’s epic serialized novel of