Editing Soka Gakkai (section)

===Proselytizing===
The Soka Gakkai's expansion methods have been seen as controversial, as it employed a Buddhist method called ''[[shakubuku]]'', a term employed by Nichiren, translated as "break and subdue (attachments to inferior teachings)."<ref>{{cite book|last1=McLaughlin|first1=Levi|author-link1=Soka Gakkai in Japan|title=Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Religions|date=2012|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-23436-9|page=277}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Prohl|editor-first=Inken|editor2-last=Nelson|editor2-first=John|last=McLaughlin |first=Levi|chapter=Soka Gakkai in Japan|title=Handbook of contemporary Japanese religions|date=2012|publisher=Brill|location=Leiden|isbn=978-90-04-23435-2|page=272}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gRoyAQAAQBAJ&q=nichiren+extant|title=Sins and Sinners: Perspectives from Asian Religions|page=133 |date=2012-08-17|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-23200-6|language=en}}</ref>

The reason for propagation, as explained by Josei Toda, is "not to make the Soka Gakkai larger but for you to become happier&nbsp;... There are many people in the world who are suffering from poverty and disease. The only way to make them really happy is to shakubuku them."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Seagar|first1=Richard|title=Buddhism In America|date=2012|publisher=Columbia University Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0-231-15973-9|page=96}}</ref>

In 1970 Ikeda prescribed a more moderate approach, "urging its members to adopt an attitude of openness to others"; the method Soka Gakkai prefers since then is called ''shoju''– "dialogue or conversation designed to persuade people rather than convert them", though this is often referred to still as "shakubuku spirit".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Seagar|first1=Richard Hughes|title=Encountering the Dharma|date=2006|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-24577-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/encounteringdhar0000seag/page/97 97,169–170]|url=https://archive.org/details/encounteringdhar0000seag}}</ref>