The text in this volume was formulated by the Study Department of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) to provide a valid global study reference for the fundamental principles of Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism. As Soka Gakkai Italy, we have chosen to adopt this text as part of the study material for the first and second level exams.
Starting from the life of Nichiren Daishonin, the founder of our teaching, providing a basic approach to the fundamental principles of this Buddhism, up to the history of the Soka Gakkai and its emancipation from the Nichiren Shoshu clergy, the text contained in this book outlines the distinctive features of Nichiren Buddhism as a world religion, based on humanism and human revolution, that process of "empowerment," made possible by faith in the Gohonzon, which is capable of producing change not only in the individual's immediate environment but of shaping the destiny of humanity as a whole.
We are therefore certain that the reading will be engaging not only for those preparing to take the first and second level exams, but for all people interested in learning about the fundamental principles of Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism as disseminated worldwide by the Soka Gakkai International.
