Talk:Taiseki-ji

I have attempted

to write the stub out into a full, informative article on Taisekiji. It still needs some work, which I will undertake over the next few weeks offline (while checking with some sources which I will cite later).

The photos were taken by me, so they are copyright free.

I have inserted references to Soka Gakkai, not because I feel they belong, but because if I don't put them in, I will leave the article open to criticism for not mentioning that buildings erected by that organization have been torn down by the current NS leadership—which is true. So it goes, I guess, with religious wars.

--Jim_Lockhart 12:05, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Fujitaisekiji Trip

I'm hardly an expert, and I'm not sure how Fujitaisekiji and Taisekiji are related, if at all. But I'm guessing Fujitaisekiji is a "sub-religion" of Taisekiji, if that makes any sense.

Anyway, when I was in Japan, I had the unique experience of being proseletized to by a member of Fujitaisekiji. Being the crazy adventurous person I am, naturally I agreed to go check out a service, and I even got to experience the private induction ceremony. I wrote about it here, with pictures:

My Trip To The Fujitaisekiji Buddhist Organization (Cult?) Glowing Face Man (talk) 16:48, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

The Fujitaisekiji you visited is unrelated to the Taisekiji covered in this article.

It's not completely unrelated, but he is referring to Kenshokai. PeepleLikeYou (talk) 10:22, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Added sources for specific descriptions re: Shohondo demolition

I am aware that the source in not "neutral" because it was published by Taisekiji itself; that is, in and of itself, irrelevant. If you have a different take to present, go ahead and do so using any reliable source you wish. But do not remove this material claiming lack of neutrality of the source, since sources need only be reliable, not neutral: what should be neutral is the overall article. In that sense, addition of a reliably sourced descriptions of other interpretations of the demolition and its background are welcome and even desired.

As for the comment about 59th High Priest Nichiko being the last Nichiren Shoshu high priest to support celibacy: I can neither verify nor negate the claim, since I can find no sources on the matter; if someone feels that the description should be put back, please back it up with a source. To my personal knowledge, he did not support celibacy (abstention from sexual relations), but rather the notion that priests ought not marry. Fine difference, perhaps; but he was a Buddhist, not a Christian, so the difference is significant. ——Jim_Lockhart (talk) 06:12, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

I added some source material with a few details about the Sho Hondo construction. BrandenburgG (talk) 22:52, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

It should be also noted that the construction of the Sho Hondo, amongst other issues, also led to great discomfort to some adherents and clerics of Nichiren Shoshu, critical of both SGI and Nichiren Shoshu leadership. --Catflap08 (talk) 18:26, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Image deletion and censorship

66.65.19.113: Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, it doesn't follow the internal rules of any religious organization: "Wikipedia will not remove content because of the internal bylaws of some organizations that forbid information about the organization to be displayed online. Any rules that forbid members of a given organization, fraternity, or religion to show a name or image do not apply to Wikipedia, since Wikipedia is not a member of those organizations." (WP:NOTCENSORED) I am sorry that this image is offending Nichiren Shoshu believers but the current community consensus is, that Wikipedia is not censored. If you want to avoid seeing the image yourself, please see Help:Options to hide an image. JimRenge (talk) 17:56, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Please see WP:BRD and try to reach a consensus before you delete this image again. You might consider utilizing one of Wikipedia's established dispute resolution procedures instead of edit warring. Thanks JimRenge (talk) 18:46, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Removal of "more footnotes" tag

@Catflap08, the "more footnotes" tag, added by @Aoidh appeared to be appropriate. The 3 references in the article verify only parts of the "Shohondo" section. The rest of the article is completely unsourced. You removed the tag with the edit summary: "Being the article on a place sacred to a group who should else deliver soures? Tourist board maybe." I don* t think this is a valid argument. All articles should comply with WP:V. The sentence: "Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations", made sense in this context. JimRenge (talk) 20:00, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Daikyakuden bit really doesn't make sense

Sorry but this just makes absolutely no sense at all:

The first Dai-Kyakuden (大 客 殿 "Grand Reception Hall") was built in 1465. It was rebuilt on 1 March 1959 and expanded in the year 1964 by the Soka Gakkai. The current edifice, a wood-clad steel-framed structure, was demolished in September 1995 and completed in 1998 with steel-reinforced concrete building. The priesthood cited its imposing ferroconcrete mass as incongruent with the architectural tone appropriate for a temple compound.

It was demolished in 1995 and completed in 1998?

Unfortunately I don't know the true situation but this obviously needs attention. PeepleLikeYou (talk) 00:24, 25 November 2019 (UTC)