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sole truth. For twenty and more years I devoted myself to studying and spreading it, so diligently as to forget sleep itself. Though physically still weak, I would push forward to fulfilling the
Buddhist calling. However, the result was that I came to question the whole religious establishment itself. I found myself with no other possibility than to oppose it".
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surroundings. At twenty-one, though, a grave illness struck and I was forced to leave school. From then till I was thirty, I was literally at the brink of death. Perhaps it is fate that I should be brought back to life by the different outlook of
Nichiren. That philosophy has since been for me the
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and Honda Nissho. He was put in charge as the editor of the magazine for the "Youth
Association of the Great Japanese Nichirenism Movement" which propagated the right-winged reinterpretation of Nichiren's teachings. Ten years later he was influenced by the no-self movement
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On 7 December 1936 Senoo was arrested by the
Imperial government and charged with treason. In 1937 Senoo confessed his crimes and pledged his loyalty to the emperor after a five-month interrogation process. He was later released in 1942.
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We recognize that the present capitalist economic system is in contradiction with the spirit of
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We resolve to realize the implementation of a Buddha Land in this world, based on the highest character of humanity as revealed in the teachings of Śākyamuni Buddha and in accordance with the principle of brotherly
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Okuyama (2002). "Religious nationalism in the modernization process: State Shinto and Nichirenism in Meiji Japan", Bulletin of the Nanzan Institute for Religion & Culture, 26, pp. 19–31
98:. Senoo saw suffering as something not just to be transcended through spirituality but also an existential material condition to be analyzed and eliminated. Senoo believed in the creation of a “
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We accept that all existing sects, having profaned the
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and, thus, violates the spirit of
Buddhism.” He was critical of both orthodox Marxists who denied the importance of spirituality and of pro-war Buddhists who supported
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Protest in Prewar Japan: The Career of Seno-o Giro." Modern Asian Studies 21 (1) : 153-71.
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192:"Seno'o Giro and the Dilemma of Modern Buddhism - Leftist Prophet of the Lotus Sutra", Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 11/1, p.13, 1984
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