The text of this volume has been formulated by the Study Department of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) for the purpose of providing, globally, a valuable study reference for the fundamental principles of Nichiren Daishonin Buddhism. As the Italian Soka Gakkai, we have chosen to adopt this text as part of the study material for the first- and second-level examination.
Beginning with the life of Nichiren Daishonin, the founder of our teaching, providing a basic approach to the fundamental tenets of this Buddhism, and ending with the history of the Soka Gakkai and its emancipation from the clergy of the Nichiren Shoshu, 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," possible through faith in the Gohonzon, which is able to produce change not only in the individual's immediate environment but to shape the destiny of humanity as a whole.
We are therefore confident that the reading will be engaging not only for those preparing to take the first- and second-level examinations, but for all people interested in learning about the basic tenets of Nichiren Daishonin Buddhism as disseminated worldwide by the International Soka Gakkai.
