Timelines:
- Temple Issue Timeline
- Nichiren Shoshu Timeline
- Jane Hurst's Timeline — viewpoint of an impartial scholar.
- (both from the recent SGI-USA booklet Confirming Our Path of Faith)
Transmission of Law — At the Soka Spirit site, learn about the uneven transmission of the Law from high priest to high priest. This ten-part article by Masahiro Kobayashi, was serialized in the 1992 Seikyo Times.
Soka Spirit also has a Chronology of the Temple Issue and An Overview of the Priesthood Issue (both originally published in the March 1992 Seikyo Times).
A scholar's viewpoint of the split with Nichiren Shoshu by Dr. Jane Hurst.
Wooden Gohonzon Issue ...
What happened and
why.
World War II ...
During World War II, the Nichiren Shoshu priesthood cooperated with
the Japanese war machine. Here is an account
of their actions, excepted from www.nichiren.com.
Here is a demand for an apology for those actions, written by the Association of Youthful Priests Dedicated to the Reformation of Nichiren Shoshu.
The History and Conviction of the Soka Gakkai is President Josei Toda's account of the actions of the Nichiren Shoshu priesthood, as well as his vision for the future of SGI.
SGI History...
Picture sections of President
Toda and President Makiguchi.