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Article: Buddhist movement fosters peace.(Religion)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- March 22, 2003
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Byline: FROM HEART TO HEART by Charles Craytor For The Register-Guard
"A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation, and further, will enable a change in the destiny of all humankind."
- Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai International president
With the Sept. 11, 2001, bombing of the World Trade Center and our struggling economy, much of our society has been dominated by an environment of fear. For many, this fear manifests a feeling that on an individual basis we cannot make a meaningful difference. We lose hope.
The Soka Gakkai International-USA is an American Buddhist movement ...