Darkness Before Dawn and the Matsuoka Essay, in English and Japanese.
Yoshinori Kitabayashi
In 2005, the 67th Nichiren Shoshu High Priest Nikken retired; however, Nichiren Shoshu is keeping its authoritarian monastic rituals. SokaSpirit.com editors have translated “Darkness Before Dawn,” which discusses the infamous former Soka Gakkai Chief Legal Counselor Masatomo Yamazaki and his anti-Soka Gakkai machinations with the high priests.
Yumo Matsuoka
The Meaning in Faith of the Present-day Taiseki-ji School’s Transfer of the Heritage of the Law through the Sole Lineage of Its Successive High Priests
Do you adopt the Gakkai’s position that Nichikan’s view of the Gohonzon is the ultimate teaching of Nichiren? Or, choose the current contention of the Nichiren Shoshu priesthood that only the high priest of Nichiren Shoshu possesses the heritage of the Law? Reformist priest Yumo Matsuoka re-analyzes the doctrinal writings of Nichikan Shonin, one of the great thinkers in Nichiren Buddhism.