The SGI-USA Culture Department was established on February 17, 1990 by Dr. Daisaku Ikeda, the president of the Soka Gakkai International. The Culture Department is composed of SGI-USA members who work in the fields of education, the healing arts, and law. To support these members the Culture Department has four divisions: Education (pre K-12 education), Academic (college, university, and adult education), Healing Arts, and Legal.
The purpose of the SGI-USA Culture Department is to foster a steady stream of promising capable people of faith and intellect who can contribute to the development of a new hope-filled era in America.
Together the members of the Culture Department are determined to:
Become irreplaceable individuals in our respective professions and thereby gain trust and respect in our communities and American society as a whole.
Strive to study Buddhism more deeply and introduce the wisdom and humanism of Buddhism, the SGI and President Ikeda into society.
Encounter as many people as possible, engaging in warmhearted dialogue that creates heart-to-heart bonds, thereby leading to a greater expansion of the humanistic values of Nichiren Buddhism.
Provide encouragement in faith that enables culture department members and youthful successors to discover and fulfill our unique mission in society and widen the path blazed by our mentors.
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SGI President Daisaku Ikeda's 2009 Peace Proposal released.
