“It spread as if it were an epidemic” - Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan by Levi McLaughlin

The nation-state as the dominant model for legitimacy?

Only in Gakkai's delusional view of Buddhism is the nation-state the dominant model for legitimacy. Legitimacy in Buddhism is achieving Anuttara Samyak Sambodhi (the highest perfect awakening) and causing others to do the same.