This is a report on the 2012 International Lotus Sutra Seminar, sponsored by Rissho Kosei-kai and held March 6-11 at the National Women's Education Center of Japan in Musashi-ranzan, Saitama Prefecture. This year's theme, "The Lotus Sutra and Human Suffering," commemorated the tragic events of March 11, 2011. Stefan Grace is a doctoral candidate at Tokyo's Komazawa University, specializing in Buddhist studies. He is author of "D. T. Suzuki in the Contemporary Academic Climate" (Japan Mission Journal 66) and "An Exegetical Study of D. T. Suzuki's Later-Period Japanese Works" (MA thesis). Stefan also coedited Suzuki's "Zen in T'ang and Sung" (Annual Report of Researches of the Matsugaoka Bunko 25) and Suzuki's partial translation of the Chinese Chan classic Biyen-lu (scheduled for 2012 publication).
