Visit to Soka Gakkai Bangkok : Nov-10

Many many many moons ago when Jetstar offered super low airfares for some locations, Victor and some colleagues decided to take advantage of their offer and planned for a short getaway to Bangkok. That getaway did not materialize as Thailand subsequently suffered their recent most serious 2010 Thai red-shirt protest.. More than half a year later, we finally made our trip!

Ikeda Sensei brought Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism to 192 countries and territories worldwide. To trace Sensei's trail would be almost unthinkable, the least we could do is to visit the Soka Gakkai centres in these countries. Hence Soka Gakkai Thailand @ Wittayu Centre, Bangkok became our very first stop.



This SGT centre is a very humble one, very much like our Lor 18 Geylang centre although its premise is a little bigger. They presently have two halls and an office cum sales area, one hall with a gigantic butsudan and seats as all kaikans have, and another smaller hall with a more modest butsudan and members take to the floor to chant. A handful of members were chanting as we joined them and performed our morning gongyo for the day. The kaikan is currently undergoing some renovation and expansion.. I am sure this kaikan will be able to serve more members if we were to return for a second visit! :)