VISION
The SGI-USA Culture Department will foster a steady stream of promising capable people of faith and intellect, who are advancing joyfully and courageously along the path of mentor and disciple toward a new hope-filled and victorious era of American kosen-rufu.
MISSION
To show actual proof as invaluable individuals in our respective professions and thereby gain trust and respect in our communities and American society.
To advance side by side in harmony with fellow SGI members as we strive to study Buddhism more deeply, protect the Mystic Law, and to introduce the wisdom and humanism of Buddhism, the SGI and President Ikeda into society.
Together with our mentor, 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 solidify the mentor disciple relationship and discover and fulfill their unique mission in society.
The mission of the Culture Department is thoroughly described in a compendia of guidances by SGI President Daisaku Ikeda entitled "People of Culture and Wisdom: Building an Oasis of Hope, Trust and Friendship in Society," available for download below.
SGI-USA Culture Department Booklet
People of Culture and Wisdom:
Building an Oasis of Hope, Trust
and Friendship in Society
Selected Encouragement from
SGI President Daisaku Ikeda
Selected Encouragement about the history and mission of the Culture Department by
SGI President Daisaku Ikeda.
Includes excerpts from the Human Revolution and messages to Culture Department members
