Collection of lectures by D. Ikeda at famous universities around the world.
This volume collects lectures that Daisaku Ikeda gave at major universities around the world from 1975 to 1995: fragments of Buddhist wisdom that propose a society with a more humane face, one that values the individual and his or her infinite potential in a world now without borders. Always striving to grasp the commonalities between different cultures and at the same time exalting the peculiar characteristics each people, the author seeks to create bonds, bridges of friendship and understanding in a constant effort to overcome the distrust that divides West from East, one nation from another. He does so not by insisting on his own position, but by exploring the heritage bequeathed to humankind by great thinkers. Borrowing the words of the likes of Tolstoy, Gandhi, Leonardo da Vinci, Pascal or the sages of ancient China, Ikeda is able to speak the same language as disparate listeners, a language common to the human heart.
