Chapter Summaries Chapter 1: Great Mountain On April 24, 1979, Shin’ichi resigns as the third Soka Gakkai president to protect his fellow members from attacks by the priesthood. Chapter 2: Awaiting the Time Barred from attending large gatherings by the priesthood, Shin’ichi visits members at their homes, gives personal guidance, and uses his creativity to find other way to encourage members. After a year, in April 1980, he feels it time to mount a counteroffensive. Chapter 3: Launching Out After his fifth visit to China in April 1980, Shin’ichi launches a fresh struggle to encourage members throughout Japan and the world. Throughout the year and into the next, he travels overseas repeatedly to North, Central, and South America, Europe, and the Soviet Union. Chapter 4: Bells of Dawn In May and June 1981, Shin’ichi travels to several countries in Europe, including his first visit to Bulgaria. In New York on June 20, he presents his poem “To My Beloved Young American Friends—Youthful Bodhisattvas of the Earth.” In Chicago he attends the First World Peace Culture Festival. Chapter 5: Cheers of Victory On November 10, 1981, Shin’ichi declares that he will take the lead once again, thus launching the counteroffensive in earnest. In December he completes the poem “Youth, Scale the Mountain of the Twenty-First Century,” offering guiding principles for the century to come. Chapter 6: Vow For the sake of peace, Shin’ichi meets many world leaders over the next several years, including Mikhail Gorbachev, Nelson Mandela, and Rosa Parks. The Soka Gakkai achieves its “spiritual independence” from the priesthood on November 28, 1991. In 1996, he goes Cuba to meet Fidel Castro and then Costa Rica, the fifty-fourth country he visited. On May 3, 2001, Soka University of America opens. Publisher: World Tribune Press Paperback: 909 pages Dimensions: 5” x 8” E-book available at Amazon.com or from your favorite e-book seller