Temple Members Refusing to Visit Dangerous Taiseki-ji

"Taiseki-ji is dangerous"-this statement has spread among temple members and many decided not to go on the summer training pilgrimage this year. One member who decided against it said, "Once an earthquake hits Taiseki-ji, its buildings will be destroyed at once. All the pilgrimage participants will be crushed. I don't want to stay even a single night at such dangerous place."

In fact, on May 7 of this year, at a daimoku meeting at Myokoku-ji temple in Itabashi ward, Tokyo, Shinsho Abe, Nichiren Shoshu General Affairs Chief, stated that Taiseki-ji is indeed a dangerous place. He said: "If a great Tokai Earthquake (its occurrence is speculated about at some day in the near future) directly hit the Taiseki-ji area, then the Miei-do building will be completely destroyed. Also, among the lodgings within the temple grounds, ten of them are surely in very dangerous condition. The Jyoto-bo is the (most) dangerous of all. I was told that that building-where members from abroad usually stay-barely manages to stand, thanks to a single pillar. It is indeed a dangerous building."

If Shinsho Abe's statements are true, then Taiseki-ji should immediately end the usage of the Miei-do and various lodgings within the temple.