The SST - Shocking Stinky Truth about the SSK - ShoShinKai CULT!
Reginald Carpenter
Re. the reposted message (01/31/01) below, was originally, "Re:
ShoStinkyKai: a TruthBone for Artie, my scalded Myodoggie!"; is now:
The SST - Shocking Stinky Truth about the SSK - ShoShinKai CULT!
Since he has almost never given Arbn readers any of the true FACTS, or
backed Up any FACTS, with any kind of proof about that SSK - ShoShinKai,
nka. the ShoStinkyKai CULT, and since I can't give him a real
"MilkBone," then here's a TruthBone for his COWARDly, flea-bitten,
sorry-ass to chew on, Artie my scalded Myodoggie! ROTFL. War. } : < {
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"The Shoshinkai Problem and the Various Lawsuits," 1978-94!**
Group: alt.religion.buddhism.nichiren
Date: Wed, Jan 31, 2001, 11:30am
From: chiefst...@webtv.net (Reginald Carpenter)
Good day, everyone! Response to DerekJuhl postings on 01/22/01 - 11:15pm
& 01/23/01 - 4:05am CST+6. I changed the subject/title to:
"The Shoshinkai Problem and the Various Lawsuits," 1978-94!**
Re. DeeJay's postings on Jan. 22-23, 2001, re. the Shoshinkai, the
following information is from the Nichiren Shoshu Monthly magazine,
February 1995 issue, Vol. 2 No. 2, pages 24-25.
Excerpted from the article listed in the Table of Contents as a "Lecture
by Reverend Fujimoto."
"The First Guidance Meeting for the Regional Representatives and
Vice-Representatives of Hokkeko" by Rev. Nichijun Fujimoto, General
Administrator of Nichiren Shoshu. Printed in Daibyakuho, 9/1/94."
[heading title next to a photo caption of him]
The "Three Part Series on the History Leading to the Split between the
SGI and Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism" - Part Two (2). [permanent index
title]
a) Three Conditions for the Incorporation of the Soka Gakkai [omitted]
b) The Significance of ShoHondo and the Myoshinko Problem [omitted]
c) Ikeda's Arrogance and the 1977 Incidents [omitted]
d) Sham Remorse: "6/30" [1978] and "11/7" [1978] [omitted]
e) Ikeda's Resignation and the Events to Establish Harmony Between
Priesthood and Laity [omitted]
f) Nikken Shonin Assumed the Position of High Priest and Maintained the
Spirit of Cooperation [omitted]
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g) The Shoshinkai Problem and the Various Lawsuits [last section of
article]
1) "Within the priesthood, however, there was a group of young
priests who had been criticizing the Soka Gakkai since the time of
Nittatsu Shonin.
These priests rallied together with a group of former Gakkai members who
had since become believers directly connected with the temple.
They initially held the First (1st) Convention of Direct Temple
Believers at the Head Temple in August of 1978.
Their second (2nd) convention was held in January of 1979.
Even after Nikken Shonin became High Priest, they continued on and held
their third (3rd) and fourth (4th) meetings in August of 1979 and
January of 1980, respectively.
On July 4th, 1980, the same day on which the guidance meeting for senior
teacher priests was held at the Head Temple, a group of activists
priests congregated and formed an organization called the Shoshinkai.
Claiming to conduct a movement to arouse the people to the correct
faith, the priests were showing signs of intensifying their criticism of
the Gakkai.
The Nichiren Shoshu Bureau of Religious Affairs learned of plans for
their Fifth (5th) Convention of Direct Temple Believers designed to
increasingly heighten their critical activities.
The bureau repeatedly attempted to persuade the Shoshinkai to cancel
such a meeting aimed at criticizing the Gakkai, in complete defiance of
the directions in the internal guidelines given to the senior priests.
On August 24th, however, the Shoshinkai ignored all the advice and
warnings it had received and brazenly held its' convention of direct
temple believers at the Budokan Hall in Tokyo where it fiercely
criticized the Gakkai." [end of 1st paragraph]
2) "The priesthood was inevitably forced to discipline the priests
who attended this meeting, according to the bylaws of Nichiren Shoshu.
The disciplinary procedures were varied according to the degree of
involvement of each of the priests." [end of 2nd paragraph]
3) "Protesting against this disciplinary action, the Shoshinkai
brought the matter before a legal court.
In the process, the Shoshinkai priests made reference to the notes of
Masatomo Yamazaki, an attorney who was formerly a Gakkai member, which
were published in a weekly magazine in December of 1980.
Based on those notes, they implicated that Nikken Shonin's Heritage of
the Law was questionable and presented him with a letter of inquiry.
Since they did not receive a response to this letter, they deemed that
Nikken Shonin did not receive the Heritage of the Law.
Based upon this, they proclaimed that the disciplinary action performed
by someone who was not the High Priest or superintendent priest was,
indeed, invalid.
Thus, they refused to abide by the prescribed action.
Moreover, in the lawsuits, they demanded that the High Priest agree that
he lacked the qualifications for the position of superintendent priest.
In short, they were finally committing the outrageous act of renouncing
the reception of the Heritage of the Law by Nikken Shonin." [end of 3rd
paragraph]
4) "Based upon this course of events, the priesthood took the
appropriate requisite steps and ultimately defrocked all the Shoshinkai
priests.
The lawsuits continued, however.
In the case concerning the superintendent priest, last September [1993],
the Supreme Court rejected the demands made by the Shoshinkai and made
an irrevocable judgment in complete favor of the priesthood.
There are two (2) other pending lawsuits: one (1) in which the
Shoshinkai priests, claiming to be staff representing chief priests, are
demanding to have their position confirmed; the other suit involves a
claim made by the priesthood, demanding the return of the temples
illegally occupied by the Shoshinkai.
In both the Superior and Supreme Courts, these two (2) lawsuits are
expected to be dismissed soon, based on the reason that the problems
involve religious affairs in which the courts should not intervene.
Matters are not conclusive as yet with all the temples, but the present
course of affairs will most likely remain unchanged." [end of 4th
paragraph]
5) "Presently, there are temples that are unlawfully occupied by the
Shoshinkai, but according to the statutes, these temples will be legally
returned to Nichiren Shoshu when the occupants are no longer present due
to death or other circumstances.
Thus, this problem will undoubtedly be resolved gradually in this way."
[end of 5th paragraph]
6) "The 1977 Incidents with the Soka Gakkai had ended, and the
spirit of cooperation fostered by Nittatsu Shonin was maintained by
Nikken Shonin who continued to protect the
organization.
Nikken Shonin sincerely believed that the regret and remorse expressed
by the Ikeda Soka Gakkai were genuine.
It was because he trusted Ikeda that he reappointed him to the position
of chief lay representative (sokoto) on January 2nd, 1984." [end of
paragraph & article]
Copyright 1995 NST. All Rights Reserved.
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