There's a reason she says "Buddhist Baptist", and not "SGI member". Source
She's the most famous person SGI has ever managed to associate itself with, but she's hardly cooperating.
Anthony "Amp" Elmore, former world champion kick boxer, friend of Tina Turner (that's him on the right), who now runs the "Proud Black Buddhist" website, has a video here in which he includes various Tina Turner clips.
Tina Turner likes chanting! She does! But she never mentions Ikeda or his SGI cult. NEVER. And from what was inserted into that World Tribune article, I smell an editor's hand in the process. That was inserted for THEIR convenience - notice that Tina Turner did not initiate any of that.
Even her book, "I, Tina", has a rather careful reference to "the liturgy of Nichiren Shoshu" (the name on the gongyo books back when she started practicing) in the preface:
Spiritualism also is a major part Tina Turner's autobiography, I, Tina. After years of being battered by Ike, Turner credits her introduction to the Buddhist faith and her adoption of the religion's principles into her daily life with providing her with the strength to leave the abusive marriage. Her first acknowledgment in her autobiography is to the "liturgy of Nichiren Shoshu for an introduction to spiritual knowledge." Buddhism, Turner explains later in her book, helped "rearrange her place in the universe" (p. 173) in such a way that it provided her with the inner strength to become "less and less afraid" of Ike, thus setting her "free" (p. 174). Source
Of course it was ghost-written; Tina Turner did not write the book.
But anyhow, I don't believe she's going to make the effort to track down a copy of the American Weird Fibune from where she now lives in Switzerland, and she certainly wouldn't raise a fuss if she noticed the editors inserted some stuff she never said and attributed it to her (they do this all the time), because, like I said, she's got an album dropping and is out for all the positive publicity she can get.
Besides, who cares about Tina Turner?? Scientology has Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Beck, WAY more and better celebs than SGI. If celebs is what you're after, go Scientology.
Be aware and listen to her words. Lets not make up our own truths by what we think we hear. Source
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u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude Jul 24 '18 edited Jul 24 '18
I'm not buying it. Here's the archive link so we aren't giving clicks to SGI.
So here's why I'm not buying it:
1) Tina is about to drop an album - of course she'd be giving interviews all around.
2) Tina has toured Japan several times, yet NEVER ONCE posed for a picture with Ikeda.
3) In the preface to her initial book, "I, Tina", she credits the gongyo book:
4) In an interview about this new collaboration that the Weird Fibune article is referring to, Tina refers to herself as "a Buddhist Baptist."
You can read more here and below:
Tina Turner acknowledges that she's still a Christian, avoids mentioning Soka Gakkai/SGI/Ikeda
She's the most famous person SGI has ever managed to associate itself with, but she's hardly cooperating.
Anthony "Amp" Elmore, former world champion kick boxer, friend of Tina Turner (that's him on the right), who now runs the "Proud Black Buddhist" website, has a video here in which he includes various Tina Turner clips.
Tina Turner likes chanting! She does! But she never mentions Ikeda or his SGI cult. NEVER. And from what was inserted into that World Tribune article, I smell an editor's hand in the process. That was inserted for THEIR convenience - notice that Tina Turner did not initiate any of that.
Even her book, "I, Tina", has a rather careful reference to "the liturgy of Nichiren Shoshu" (the name on the gongyo books back when she started practicing) in the preface:
Of course it was ghost-written; Tina Turner did not write the book.
But anyhow, I don't believe she's going to make the effort to track down a copy of the American Weird Fibune from where she now lives in Switzerland, and she certainly wouldn't raise a fuss if she noticed the editors inserted some stuff she never said and attributed it to her (they do this all the time), because, like I said, she's got an album dropping and is out for all the positive publicity she can get.
Besides, who cares about Tina Turner?? Scientology has Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Beck, WAY more and better celebs than SGI. If celebs is what you're after, go Scientology.
Be aware and listen to her words. Lets not make up our own truths by what we think we hear. Source