Dr Anne Mette Fisker-Nielsen, of London University's School of Oriental and African Studies, talks about how youth members of the Soka Gakkai engage in a non-sectarian way with Japanese politics.
It is often said that Nichiren’s Buddhism begins and ends with his great treatise 'On Establishing The Correct Teaching For The Peace Of The Land'. Eddy Canfor-Dumas offers some thoughts on its relevance today, especially to those practising Buddhism within the SGI.
In this year's Peace Proposal, SGI President Ikeda emphasises that 2015 could be a decisive moment in ridding the world of nuclear weapons. He proposes holding a conference for a nuclear weapon free world at the G8 Summit in 2015, which is also the seventieth anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Thirty years ago SGI President Daisaku Ikeda predicted that Africa would be the continent of the 21st Century. In a recent interview with This Way Up, the inspirational leader of SGI Buddhists in Nigeria, Dr Bamgboye Afolabi, claims that the happiness-making machine is roaring into life across Africa
At the age of nine Larry Loyie was forced to leave his home in Alberta, Canada, and the traditional Cree way of life, to attend a boarding school where the goal of teaching was to wipe out his native language and traditions.
In his 50s he started to practise Nichiren Buddhism, and this became a turning point in fulfilling his dream of becoming a writer.
Aided by her Buddhist practice, Akiko Matsumura struggled to overcome the suicide of her adult son.
I was born as the second daughter in a well-off family and lived my life without ever having to struggle much with anything. I was bright and happy, with a tenacious, never-give-up attitude. I loved literature, and when I was in high school, I had an essay published in a local newspaper.
When her partner’s work was relocated to Greater Manchester Diane Southam, a confirmed Southerner, was faced with a tough choice: Singledom or Salford?