Novels
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Esperia The New Human Revolution Vol. 27
1978, designated as the "Year of Study," saw Shin'ichi Yamamoto undertaking a series of trips to various prefectures and regions across Japan, events described in this volume. In meeting with members and leaders, Shin'ichi seized every opportunity to offer them warm encouragement and guidance, pouring his entire being into these interactions without reservation. During these encounters, sometimes informal, Shin'ichi reiterated the fundamental principles underpinning the Soka Gakkai, such as the importance of personal encouragement and the meaning and function of discussion meetings. He also made an effort to visit the pioneers in those areas, whose homes had served for years as operational bases for local activities, to thank them personally.Moreover, on April 9, 1978, the Soka Elementary School in Tokyo was inaugurated: Shin'ichi Yamamoto thus saw the realization of a goal, so dear to his mentor Toda and to the first president of the Soka Gakkai, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, of completing an entire Soka school system, from kindergarten to post-graduate specialization, based on Makiguchi's educational ideals. For Shin'ichi, it was also the concretization of his commitment to fostering capable individuals, based on the conviction that young people are the leaders of the future.
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Esperia The New Human Revolution vols. 25/26
The autobiographical novel by Daisaku Ikeda, president of the SGI. Starting from early 1977, Shin’ichi Yamamoto embarks on a series of journeys to various prefectures across Japan: in each location, meetings with local leaders become an opportunity to offer guidance and advice on various aspects of activities, such as unity and the attitude of leaders, but also practical instructions on topics like how to organize meetings, how to moderate during gatherings, or how to transmit communications. In September of the same year, in the village of Atsuta, Josei Toda's hometown, the Memorial Park dedicated to him is inaugurated, the first cemetery built by the Soka Gakkai. President Yamamoto attends the inauguration and expounds on the profound view of life and death in Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism. 1978, the "Year of Study," is marked by a change in the Soka Gakkai's organizational structure: from the "vertical" system, where each member belonged to the district of the person who introduced them to Buddhism, to the new structure centered on chapters and based on geographical area, with the aim of allowing people to take root in their local community and engage in Buddhist dialogue with people in their community. Furthermore, that year Shin'ichi commits to paving the way for the study of Buddhism as a driving force for kosen rufu, giving a strong impetus to the Gakkai's study activities.
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Esperia The New Human Revolution vols. 19/20
The autobiographical novel by Daisaku Ikeda, SGI President. 1974: Shin'ichi Yamamoto's initiatives to spread a culture of peace bear fruit, and the kosen rufu movement begins to be understood even where it was previously viewed with suspicion. President Yamamoto travels to Panama, then to Peru, where he receives the keys to the city of Lima, and to California, where he is awarded honorary citizenship of San Diego. In Okinawa, Soka Gakkai youth collect the experiences of World War II survivors, a valuable testimony that will serve as a warning for the future about the tragic consequences of war.1974 is also the year Shin'ichi Yamamoto travels to China and the Soviet Union. The establishment of friendly relations between universities and his efforts to initiate sincere dialogues are the beginning of a path toward friendship and trust between nations that had long been hostile to each other. Towards the end of the year, President Yamamoto is again in Beijing, where a historic meeting, strongly desired by the gravely ill Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai, takes place. Yamamoto later also meets with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to present his proposals aimed at international détente.
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Esperia The New Human Revolution Vols. 21/22
The autobiographical novel by Daisaku Ikeda, SGI President. 1975 is the year of the founding of Soka Gakkai International. On January 26, representatives from over fifty countries around the world gathered on the island of Guam to celebrate the launch of a worldwide peace movement. President Yamamoto had just returned from a trip to the United States during which he met the UN Secretary-General and the American Secretary of State. It was the latest step in a series of initiatives he had undertaken to promote dialogue and détente between the major world powers. The first World Peace Conference was an opportunity for Shin'ichi to reconfirm before all the assembled representatives the objective entrusted to him by his mentor Josei Toda: "Mr. Toda, I will dedicate my entire life to realizing kosen rufu in the world, in order to bring happiness and peace to all humankind." The Soka Gakkai President's popular diplomacy initiatives continued, and in April he embarked on a third trip to China, which was followed by another trip to the Soviet Union and Europe. Meanwhile, Soka Gakkai continued to expand the scope of its activities. In July, the city of Honolulu in Hawaii hosted an important cultural festival that marked a new further step in the kosen rufu movement worldwide.
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Esperia The Hiroshima Notebook
A novel by Daisaku Ikeda set in Hiroshima.“An indomitable spirit, capable of enduring any adversity.” This phrase kept echoing in her mind. Life is full of unhappiness and pain. When we experience a setback, we can sometimes be overwhelmed by despair. But that suffering is the material with which we build our existence. One can blame fate and resign oneself to defeat, or one can resume living aiming for happiness – it all depends on having or not having “an indomitable spirit, capable of enduring any adversity.”
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Esperia edizioni The Eternal City
The novel opens with the Jubilee of 1900 in Rome, at the height of the dispute between the Vatican and the Italian State over the temporal power of the Church. This context is intertwined with the social demands of the era, animated by a Christian socialism that Caine himself was steeped in. Davide Rossi is a Left-wing deputy who fights for the people and opposes a corrupt prime minister, who will try to prevent the culmination of the love story between Rossi and Donna Roma Volonna. Caine spent a long time in Rome, visiting every place depicted in the novel; his descriptions of Regina Coeli, the Vatican and its ceremonies, the city's fashionable places and its squares teeming with ordinary people, convey the atmosphere of the time. The book is imbued with a religious sense of life and the characters, even the most abject ones, are described compassionately, like a true investigator of the human soul. Reading this text more than a century after its release, one cannot help but be struck by the author's visionary ability: he foresaw for Italy, albeit in terms of "fictional politics", the dictatorship, the abdication of the monarchy, and the birth of the Republic, forty years in advance. Thomas Henry Hall Caine (1853-1931) wrote about fifteen novels, veritable best-sellers, which earned him the title of "Sir" in 1917. The Manxman of 1894 is the most well-known of his works, thanks to A. Hitchcock's film adaptation in 1929. The Christian (1897) was the first book to sell a million copies in England. Pietro Mascagni set the theatrical version of The Eternal City to music in 1902.
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Esperia Alessandro's Choice
A novel by Daisaku Ikeda on the theme of friendship.333 BC. Alexander the Great, on his conquest of the East, contracts a severe illness. No one among the wise men in his retinue can find a cure to save him from death. But in the nocturnal quiet of the camp, as the disease slowly consumes his body, a tormenting doubt tears at his soul. Is the potion prepared for him by Philip, his loyal childhood friend and personal physician, a medicine or a poison? As swift as the wind, sent by one of his generals, a messenger on horseback arrives to deliver the letter containing the answer: Philip is a traitor. The young and invincible king will thus have to wonder whether to trust the messenger and disown his lifelong friend, or bring the cup to his lips and risk his life. The classical world meets Buddhist teachings and offers Master Ikeda the opportunity to celebrate, in a compelling and precious book, the value of loyalty and friendship. True friendship is not based on calculation. Gold and wealth cannot buy it. It makes us better: it brings out our qualities, helps us make others happy, and while we strive to do so, it gives us joy. Therefore, a friend is like a second self; in friendship two people become one, and a bond of this kind can be defined as life itself.
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