A collection of lectures by D. Ikeda at renowned universities around the world.
This volume collects the lectures that Daisaku Ikeda delivered at important universities worldwide from 1975 to 1995: fragments of Buddhist wisdom that propose a more humane society, one that values the individual and their infinite potential in a world without borders. Always striving to grasp the commonalities between different cultures while simultaneously extolling the unique characteristics of each people, the author seeks to create bonds, bridges of friendship and understanding in a constant effort to overcome the distrust that divides the West from the East, one nation from another. He does not do so by insisting on his own position, but by exploring the legacy bequeathed to humanity by great thinkers. Borrowing the words of figures such as Tolstoy, Gandhi, Leonardo da Vinci, Pascal, or the sages of ancient China, Ikeda is able to speak the same language as the most disparate listeners, a language common to the human heart.
