Home›Sources›Metraux, "The Dispute between the Soka Gakkai and the Nichiren Shoshu Priesthood: A Lay Revolution against a Conservative Clergy" (Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 1992)SourcesMetraux, "The Dispute between the Soka Gakkai and the Nichiren Shoshu Priesthood: A Lay Revolution against a Conservative Clergy" (Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 1992)sourceCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Metraux, "The Dispute between the Soka Gakkai and the Nichiren Shoshu Priesthood: A Lay Revolution against a Conservative Clergy" (Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 1992)." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/dai-gohonzon-taisekiji-source-metraux.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Metraux, "The Dispute between the Soka Gakkai and the Nichiren Shoshu Priesthood: A Lay Revolution against a Conservative Clergy" (Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 1992). Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/dai-gohonzon-taisekiji-source-metrauxCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-metraux-the-dispute-between-the-soka-gak, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Metraux, "The Dispute between the Soka Gakkai and the Nichiren Shoshu Priesthood: A Lay Revolution against a Conservative Clergy" (Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 1992)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/dai-gohonzon-taisekiji-source-metraux}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXA citation to Daniel A. Metraux's peer-reviewed article on the 1990 to 1991 dispute between Soka Gakkai and the Nichiren Shoshu priesthood, read directly via the Nanzan Institute's own repository copy. Its strength is that Metraux documents the November 1991 excommunication in institutional detail as it happened, drawing on contemporary Japanese press coverage, and its own footnote four defines the Dai Gohonzon's place within Nichiren Shoshu's Three Great Secret Laws doctrine. Its limit is that, published within a year of the schism, it cannot speak to the priesthood's subsequent decades-long practice regarding transcription and access, only to the dispute's opening phase.FactsCross-Tradition ConnectionsClaims Backed By This Source (14 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsCitationAuthorWell-attestedDaniel A. MetrauxPublisherWell-attestedJapanese Journal of Religious Studies, Nanzan Institute for Religion and CulturePublication YearWell-attested1992URLWell-attestedhttps://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/journal/6/article/835/pdf/downloadSource TypeWell-attestedJournal articleAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1Reliability tier 1: a peer-reviewed article in the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, published by the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, the strongest available evidentiary form for a claim about an internal dispute within a Buddhist movement.Cross-Tradition ConnectionsAssociated WithNichiren, Denominations Well-attested This source names Nichiren directly: "dispute between Soka Gakkai and the Nichiren Shoshu priesthood, read directly via the Nanzan Institute's own repository copy."Source Metraux, "The Dispute between the Soka Gakkai and the Nichiren Shoshu Priesthood: A Lay Revolution against a Conservative Clergy" (Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 1992)Daniel A. Metrauxtier 1Nichiren Shoshu, Denominations Well-attested This source names Nichiren Shoshu directly: "dispute between Soka Gakkai and the Nichiren Shoshu priesthood, read directly via the Nanzan Institute's own repository copy."Source Metraux, "The Dispute between the Soka Gakkai and the Nichiren Shoshu Priesthood: A Lay Revolution against a Conservative Clergy" (Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 1992)Daniel A. Metrauxtier 1Soka Gakkai, Denominations Well-attested This source names Soka Gakkai directly: "Metraux's peer-reviewed article on the 1990 to 1991 dispute between Soka Gakkai and the Nichiren Shoshu priesthood, read directly via the Nanzan Institute's own repository copy."Source Metraux, "The Dispute between the Soka Gakkai and the Nichiren Shoshu Priesthood: A Lay Revolution against a Conservative Clergy" (Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 1992)Daniel A. Metrauxtier 1Claims Backed By This Source (14 claims)This source backs 14 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicSources, 10 claims: 7 well-attested, 3 holds.Sacred Art & Iconography, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.Articles, 1 claims: 1 general references.Well-attested9Sacred Art & IconographyThe Dai Gohonzon (Taiseki-ji)SourcesMetraux, "The Dispute between the Soka Gakkai and the Nichiren Shoshu Priesthood: A Lay Revolution against a Conservative Clergy" (Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 1992)Holds3SourcesMetraux, "The Dispute between the Soka Gakkai and the Nichiren Shoshu Priesthood: A Lay Revolution against a Conservative Clergy" (Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 1992)General References2ArticlesA Temple Keeps What a Movement Once SharedSacred Art & IconographyThe Dai Gohonzon (Taiseki-ji)Comments (0)No comments yet. 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