The Daisaku Ikeda LibraryIntroducing works by the Buddhist philosopher
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The latest updates on Daisaku Ikeda's published works and writing projects in progress as reported in the Seikyo Shimbun, the daily organ newspaper of the Soka Gakkai in Japan. (Dates correspond to the daily's issue date, not the actual event itself)
July 29, 2008
DELHI, India: Eternal Ganges Press has released the English-language edition of A Youthful Diary, which records the reflections, frustrations and aspirations of Daisaku Ikeda as a young adult, revealing insights that would inform and shape the lay Buddhist Soka Gakkai organization as a global movement in the ensuing decades. The latest edition comes with a foreword by Dr. N. Radhakrishnan, chairman of the Indian Council for Gandhian Studies.
July 4, 2008
TOKYO, Japan: The Japan Times, one of Japan's largest English-language newspapers, has published Embracing the Future, a collection of English and Japanese versions of essays by Daisaku Ikeda that first appeared in the daily between September 2003 and January 2008 (http://bookclub.japantimes.co.jp). Ikeda offers insights and perspectives on a broad range of topics, from coping with stress and aging to the abolition of nuclear weapons and creation of a global culture of peace. The essays have been reprinted in 26 newspapers in 19 countries to date.
July 13, 2008
LONDON, England: Publisher I.B. Tauris has released two dialogues co-authored by Daisaku Ikeda, Human Values in a Changing World: A Dialogue on the Social Role of Religion, and Search for a New Humanity. Human Values in a Changing World is a record of exchanges on the religious response to the human condition between Ikeda and Bryan R. Wilson (1926-2004), emeritus reader in sociology at the University of Oxford and a major contributor to the sociology of religion worldwide. In Search for a New Humanity, Ikeda and Josef Derbolav (1912-87), former professor of education and philosophy at the University of Bonn, Germany, and widely considered a leading thinker in the field of education, discuss the differences and commonalities of Christianity and Buddhism, as well as perspectives on humanism as developed in the east and west.
These two works are the third and fourth dialogues by Ikeda in a 12-volume series to be published by I.B. Tauris by 2010.
July 4, 2008
TOKYO, Japan: The Japan Times, one of Japan's largest English-language newspapers, has published Embracing the Future, a collection of English and Japanese versions of essays by Daisaku Ikeda that first appeared in the daily between September 2003 and January 2008 (http://bookclub.japantimes.co.jp). Ikeda offers insights and perspectives on a broad range of topics, from coping with stress and aging to the abolition of nuclear weapons and creation of a global culture of peace. The essays have been reprinted in 26 newspapers in 19 countries to date.
June 20, 2008
SEOUL, South Korea: Hwa Kwang Publishing Co. releases the Hangul edition of The New Human Revolution, Vol. 17, a historical novel describing the development of the Soka Gakkai lay Buddhist association in Japan and abroad under the presidency of the author, Daisaku Ikeda. Set against a backdrop of global events, The New Human Revolution details the struggles of pioneer members to overcome personal struggles through their Buddhist practice. The series is a sequel to The Human Revolution, which describes the efforts of second Soka Gakkai President Josei Toda to establish the movement in the aftermath of World Ward II.
June 18, 2008
SAO PAULO, Brazil: Brazil Seikyo Publishing Co. has released the Portuguese edition of Taiyo to daichi: Kaitaku no uta (tentative English translation: The Sun and the Good Earth: An Ode to Pioneering Japanese Immigrants), a dialogue between Yoichi Kodama (1895-1989), who left Japan for Brazil with his family in 1908 and became a tireless advocate of friendly Brazilian-Japanese ties, and Daisaku Ikeda. The work, released in Japan in 1988 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the first Japanese immigrants settling in Brazil, was recently published in Portuguese in celebration of the milestone's centennial anniversary. Kodama was 93 at the time he shared his experiences with Ikeda.
May 21, 2008
TOKYO, Japan: With the recent release of a traditional Chinese edition of Josei ni okuru koboba 365-nichi (tentative translation: 365 Daily Quotations for Women) by Commercial Press in Hong Kong, the number of works by Daisaku Ikeda available in different language editions reached 1,000. The author's works-which range from poetry and children's literature to dialogue with world leaders and proposals on peace, education and the environment-appeal to a global audience, having been translated into some 40 languages and published in 50 countries to date.
May 4, 2008
TOKYO, Japan: Dr. Lou Marinoff, president of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association (APPA) and Professor of Philosophy at City College of New York, and Daisaku Ikeda are collaborating on a discourse called "Dialogue on Philosophical Renaissance." Their dialogue will be serialized in Pumpkin, a Japanese women's magazine, beginning with its June 2008 issue. The first installment focuses on philosophical counseling, a non-clinical form of counseling based on the premise that philosophy holds the key to overcoming many of life's problems. The two have met twice, in 2003 and 2007.
April 23, 2008
LONDON, England: Publisher I.B. Tauris has released A Dialogue between East and West-Looking to a Human Revolution, co-authored by Club of Rome honorary president Ricardo Diez-Hochleitner and Daisaku Ikeda. The authors examine a broad range of challenges and opportunities for humanity. A key focus of interest for both is the concept of "human revolution"-a positive transformation within the individual that brings about broad social change. After having served in various international institutions, including the World Bank and UNESCO, Dr. Diez-Hochleitner was Club of Rome president from 1995 to 2000 and currently serves as the think tank's honorary president and is a member of its executive committee.
April 11, 2008
BEIJING, China: The Chinese literary newspaper China Reading selects the Chinese edition of Taiwa no bunmei (tentative English translation: Toward a Civilization of Dialogue) as one of 2007's 100 Books for Good Reading. Taiwa no bunmei is a dialogue between Harvard University Professor Tu Weiming, an acclaimed expert on Confucian studies, and Daisaku Ikeda, who offer Confucian and Buddhist perspectives on creating peaceful coexistence and exploring the nature and potential of dialogue. The book also received positive reviews in Wenhui Readers' Weekly, Chengdu Evening News and Hong Kong's Sing Tao Daily.
April 9, 2008
TOKYO, Japan: Japanese literary magazine Ushio will begin serializing from its May 2008 issue a dialogue between former UN Under-Secretary General Anwarul K. Chowdhury and Daisaku Ikeda. They will discuss a broad range of topics, from building a culture of peace to the humanistic philosophy of poet Rabindranath Tagore and perspectives to further empower the UN. The two have met twice in Japan, in March 2003 and August 2006. During their second meeting, Ikeda presented Ambassador Chowdhury with "Fulfilling the Mission: Empowering the UN to Live Up to the World's Expectations," a proposal calling for the world body to return to its fundamental purpose as a forum of dialogue and diplomacy to avert war.
March 31, 2008
COLUMBUS, OHIO, U.S.A.: Publisher Zaner-Bloser, renowned for its educational learning tools, releases Building Bridges, an educational textbook that includes Daisaku Ikeda's Over the Deep Blue Sea, a storybook for children about three friends and their discovery and reaffirmation of such values as peace, tolerance and friendship.
March 30, 2008
TOKYO, Japan: A dialogue between National Technical University of Ukraine (NTUU) Rector Michael Zgurovsky and Daisaku Ikeda will be serialized in the monthly education magazine Todai from its May 2008 issue. In the first installation of the series, "Friendship between Ukraine and Japan-Toward an Age of Hope, Toward an Age of Life (tentative translation)," the two will examine Ukraine's rich history and culture going over the past millennium. Dr. Zgurovsky was trained as an engineering research scientist and has published numerous books and papers on mathematics and cybernetics. In 1991 he was appointed rector of NTUU-formerly known as the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, one of the world's oldest and largest institutions of its kind.
March 27, 2008
MUNICH, Germany:German publisher Nymphenburger releases the German edition of A Quest for Global Peace, a dialogue between Sir Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs co-founder and Nobel peace laureate, and Daisaku Ikeda. The two share the view that the application of 20th-century science and technology requires the development of newfound wisdom in the 21st century arising from basic human values that transcend the limits of knowledge and state sovereignty. A Quest for Global Peace is also available in Italian, Chinese and Japanese.
March 24, 2008
ATHENS, Greece: Kedros Publishing releases the Greek edition of The Living Buddha, Daisaku Ikeda's vivid historical narrative about the life of Shakyamuni-known as the historic Buddha-which draws on Buddhist canon for insights into Shakyamuni's lifelong efforts to free people from their fundamental suffering. The Living Buddha is now available in 17 languages, including English, Indonesian, French, Russian and Chinese.
March 21, 2008
INCHEON, South Korea: The World Literary Association (WLA) confers Daisaku Ikeda with an honorary general directorship in recognition of his literary achievements. WLA General Director Kim Cheon Woo expressed gratitude for the author's poetry, which she noted inspired courage and hope at a time when many contemporary poets were inclined to impart pessimism and despair. The association is based in Seoul, and has some 9,600 members in 70 countries, including the United States and China. The conferral ceremony took place on March 16.
February 28, 2008
TAIPEI, Taiwan: Cheng Yin Culture Enterprise releases a traditional Chinese edition of The Path to the Land of Children, a dialogue between Albert Likhanov, president of the Moscow-based International Children's Funds, and Daisaku Ikeda on youth, parenthood, education and social roles and responsibilities in the upbringing of young people.
February 25, 2008
TAIPEI, Taiwan: Cheng Yin Culture Enterprise releases a traditional Chinese edition of The New Human Revolution, Volume 3, a novelized account of the lay Buddhist association Soka Gakkai, for which Ikeda served as third president from 1960, and its postwar development in Japan and abroad.
February 9, 2008
GUANGXI, China: Guangxi Normal University Press releases the simplified Chinese edition of A Lifelong Quest for Peace: A Dialogue, coauthored by Dr. Linus Pauling, the Nobel Prize-winning chemist and peace advocate, and Daisaku Ikeda. Their dialogue encompasses the range of human knowledge and the impact on global peace and disarmament. A Lifelong Quest for Peace is also available in Japanese, Vietnamese, Korea, Spanish, Tagalog, traditional Chinese, French and Russian.
February 5, 2008
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil: Publisher Brazil Seikyo Press releases A Lua E A Princesa, a Portuguese edition of The Princess and The Moon, a children's story written by Daisaku Ikeda. In addition to the original Japanese and translations in Portuguese and English, the work is also available in Chinese, Korean, Dutch, German, Tagalog, and Spanish.
January 31, 2008
MILAN, Italy: Publisher Esperia Edizioni releases Rivoluzioni (Revolutions: to green the environment, to grow the human heart), the Italian edition of a dialogue between M.S. Swaminathan, the renowned Indian agricultural scientist and president of the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, and Daisaku Ikeda. The work offers far-reaching perspectives on and solutions to such global issues as poverty, food shortages, nuclear proliferation and peace building.
Ikeda's works on life, as well as science and spirituality, draw participants' interest at bioethics conference in Brazil (August 28, 2007)