Metraux, "The Dispute between the Soka Gakkai and the Nichiren Shoshu Priesthood: A Lay Revolution against a Conservative Clergy" (Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 1992)

A citation to Daniel A. Metraux's peer-reviewed article on the 1990 to 1991 dispute between Soka Gakkai and the Nichiren Shoshu priesthood, read directly via the Nanzan Institute's own repository copy. Its strength is that Metraux documents the November 1991 excommunication in institutional detail as it happened, drawing on contemporary Japanese press coverage, and its own footnote four defines the Dai Gohonzon's place within Nichiren Shoshu's Three Great Secret Laws doctrine. Its limit is that, published within a year of the schism, it cannot speak to the priesthood's subsequent decades-long practice regarding transcription and access, only to the dispute's opening phase.