Career
Susai came to India in 1966 and met Nichidatsu Fujii, whom he helped with the Peace Pagoda at Rajgir. He fell out with Fuji, however, but he related that on his return journey he was stopped by a dream in which a figure resembling Nagarjuna appeared and said, "Go to Nagpur". In Nagpur, he met Wamanrao Godbole, the person who had organized the conversion ceremony for Doctor Ambedkar in 1956.
Sasai claims that when he saw a photograph of Doctor Ambedkar at Godbole"s home, he realized that Ambedkar had appeared in his dream.
At first, Nagpur residents considered Surai Sasai very strange. Then he began to greet them with "Jai Bhim" (victory to Ambedkar) and to build viharas.
In 1987, a court case to deport him for overstaying his visa was dismissed. He was granted Indian citizenship, which cost him his Japanese citizenship.
Sasai is one of the main leaders of the campaign to free the Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya from Hindu control.
Sasai has hundreds of thousands of lay disciples and hundreds of ordained monk and novice disciples. His most active disciples are Bhante Bodhi Dhamma (Dhammaji), Prajnasheela Bhikkhu, Ken Bodhi, and Bhikkhu Abhaya Putra. 1935: Born in Sugao Niimi, Okayama Prefecture, the eldest of the brothers
1951: Student Academy of positive 入塾 Tokyo.
1957: High School Yoneko Aduma Tottori Prefecture.
大善寺 trained in Koshu City, Yamanashi Prefecture. Takashi Oyama 薬王院出家 in 1960, trained in religious Ouzi Nichiren in Kagoshima
He 浪曲 the side (easy 東家 (2 generations)), the fortune-teller.
1965: studied as a monk in Thailand
1966: traveled in Calcutta, India and Japan. Moved to the mountains 妙法寺 Rajigiru
1967: Reported his dream, moved to Nagpur.
1969: 妙法寺built
1970: Siddhartha College study in Mumbai
1988: Naturalized Indian citizen
1992: Buddhagaya campaigned to "liberate" Mahabodhi
1998: Excavation of Mansell ruins started
2009 Toured/lectured in Japan after 44 years
1994: Ambedkar International Award.