| Descript |
xvi, 284 pages, [4] pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Translated from Japanese |
| Contents |
Creative life -- A matter of the heart -- Beyond the profit motive -- The kemalist revolution: a model -- Flight of creativity -- Magnificent cosmos -- Thoughts on education for global citizenship -- A new road to east-west cultural exchange -- Crossoads of civilisation -- A new global awareness -- Building a great spiritual bridge to the new century -- Gandhism and the modern world -- Mahayana buddhism and twenty-first-century civilisation -- The age of soft power -- Infinite horizon -- Globaslim and nationalism -- Peace and human security: a buddhist perspective for the twenty-first century |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Originally published: New York: Weatherhill, 1996 |
| Summary |
Annotation 'The natural sympathy and understanding of people everywhere must be the soil in which the new humanism can thrive.' For Daisaku Ikeda, whose words these are, education has long been one of the fundamental priorities of his work and teaching. And his emphasis on the intellectual legacy bequeathed to humanity by the great teachers of civilization is in this volume encapsulated by the notion of a 'new humanism': a significant residue of wisdom that in the right circumstances may be passed on to future generations, expanding horizons, making connnctions between different cultures and encouraging fresh insights and new discoveries across the globe. These circumstances are perhaps most fully realised in the context of universities. And in promoting his core values of education and peace, the author has delivered speeches and lectures at more than twenty-five academies, colleges and research institutes worldwide. This stimulating collection, which includes the author's most recent lectures, ranges widely across topics as diverse as art, religion, culture and time, and draws creatively on the sages of ancient India, China and Japan as well as on visionary thinkers from every nation, including Tolstoy, Victor Hugo and Gandhi |
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Soka Gakkai
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Buddhism and humanism
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Buddhist sociology
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| ISBN |
9781848854826 |
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9781848854833 |
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