Happy SGI-USA Women's Day!

Happy SGI-USA Women's Day! Happy Birthday, Mrs. Kaneko Ikeda!

In honor of today, we post the following Gosho passage in your honor:

"Think of it! Even if one were to meet a person who could cross the ocean carrying Mount Sumeru on his head, one could never find a woman like you. Even though one might find a person who could steam sand and make boiled rice of it, one could never meet a woman like you. You should know that Shakyamuni Buddha, Many Treasures Buddha, the Buddhas of the ten directions who are Shakyamuni’s emanations, great bodhisattvas such as Superior Practices and Boundless Practices, Brahma, Shakra, the four heavenly kings, and other deities will protect you, just as a shadow accompanies the body. You are the foremost votary of the Lotus Sutra among the women of Japan. Therefore, following the example of Bodhisattva Never Disparaging, I bestow on you the Buddhist name Sage Nichimyo. (Letter to Sage Nichimyo, The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, vol. 1, p. 325).