法華講メンバーの掲示板に原文が貼られていて、それで知ったのですが、全訳は無理なので主要部分のみ意訳紹介します。原題は”Buying Respect for Ikeda?”(池田への尊敬を金で買う?)
> SGI has offered to give $180,000 to the city of San Francisco in exchange for naming a gate to Franklin Square Park after SGI President Daisaku Ikeda. The gate would include a plaque to Ikeda's mentors. According to the city's Recreation and Park's Department, $80,000 would be used for construction and landscaping of the gate, and $100,000 would go to the Recreation and Park Department for "general operating support."
>But SGI's practice of lavishing large amounts of money to buy honors for Daisaku Ikeda does not speak well for Ikeda, or SGI. And it doesn't make Buddhism look good, either.