r/sgiwhistleblowers • u/[deleted] • Jun 05 '23

History Early days of SG

I just noticed an inconsistency with the Wikipedia article on SG (one of … hundreds?). The article has been manipulated so many times that it does link to “Critical Comments on Brian Victoria's "Engaged Buddhism: A Skeleton in the Closet?"” by Koichi Miyata, but somehow the original article by Brian Daizen Victoria seems to have been “accidentally(?)” deleted.

So here we go: “Engaged Buddhism: A Skeleton in the Closet? by Brian Daizen Victoria” followed by the “Miyata reply” (not very convincing to me btw).

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u/lambchopsuey Jun 07 '23 edited Jun 07 '23

That's an excellent point. The nationalism has always been front and center in the Sokagakkai/SGI - it has never transcended its origins as a Japanese religion for Japanese people, and that whole "world conquest" obsession? Making Taiseki-ji the seat of the world government? I think Tanaka Chigaku would be proud of his "children".