The SGI's loyal little lapdog pet scholars (cont'd)

The original topic article, "The SGI's pet scholars" is now apparently too old to comment on, but its purpose was to be a resource where people could see which "scholars" out there can be counted upon to provide only sympathetic (if not glowing) accounts of Ikeda and the Soka Gakkai/SGI.

So we can add some more here, and when this thread goes dead, we'll start another and link it in.

These "scholars" are doubly despicable because they grovel and fawn all around Ikeda, yet somehow, inexplicably, they themselves never join the SGI! WHY do you suppose they would bend over backwards and fall all over themselves praising Ikeda and the SGI - but never actually join??

Richard Hughes Seager:

A lot of SGI's material appears filtered by its directors; he acknowledges this but at times it feels an "authorized" version.

Of course it does. That's because it was paid for. The site author footnotes the article with this laundry list of loyal little Ikeda lapdogs:

P.S. I've also reviewed complimentary studies: Daniel B. Montgomery's "Fire in the Lotus" on Nichiren Buddhism; "A Time to Chant" on SGI-UK; "Global Citizens" by various scholars, ed. Bryan Wilson & David Machacek; and "Soka Gakkai in America" by Machacek & Phillip Hammond. Also see from an insider's p-o-v a book not cited by Hughes, "The Buddha in Everyday Life" by British SGI leader Richard Causton. (Amazon 12-9-11)

Montgomery gets a pass; I've got that book, "Fire in the Lotus", and it's rather a treasure trove of culty info.