Daisaku Ikeda and Dialogue for Peace (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Urbain, Olivier

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The prominent Buddhist religious leader and advocate for peace, Daisaku Ikeda, has placed dialogue at the centre of his efforts towards securing global justice and conflict resolution. However, far from constituting abstract plans for the future of the world, Ikeda's dialogues represent very concrete and focused activity. He concentrates on one significant individual (such as Joseph Rotblat, Linus Pauling and Mikhail Gorbachev) at a time, or sometimes small groups, in order to attempt the transformation of thinking and society through intense discussion. This book offers detailed exploration of this crucial aspect of Ikeda's philosophy of peace. Contributors examine topics such as: the background to Ikeda's dialogic thinking as found in the Lotus Sutra; Buddhism as a practical philosophy of dialogue; Ikeda's use of dialogue, specifically in the field of education; and dialogue in relation to the abolition of nuclear weapons. Ikeda's concept of dialogue emerges as a paradoxical movement towards common ground based on respectful difference. This study will appeal to students of peace, politics and modern Buddhism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857724557
• Artikelnr.: 59779604

Autorenporträt

Olivier Urbain is Director of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research. He is the author of Daisaku Ikeda's Philosophy of Peace: Dialogue, Transformation and Global Citizenship (2010) and the editor of Music and Conflict Transformation: Harmonies and Dissonances in Geopolitics (2008), both published by I.B.Tauris.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Breaking Boundaries and Challenging Conventional Wisdom through Dialogue
Stuart Rees
Message to the Conference:
"The Power of Dialogue in a Time of Global Crisis"
Daisaku Ikeda
Introduction
Olivier Urbain
Part 1. The Lotus Sutra and Citizen Diplomacy
1. Philosophy of Peace in the Lotus Sutra Yoichi Kawada
2. People Diplomacy: Daisaku Ikeda in China and the Former Soviet Union
Hirotomo Teranishi
Part 2. Buddhism as a Practical Philosophy of Dialogue
3. Cosmopolitan Dialogue in an Interconnected, Ever-changing World
Gonzalo Obelleiro
4. Youth Perspectives: A Case Study of the Application in Australia
of Group Dialogues for Peace Liz Bowen
Part 3. Dialogic Practice in Education
5. Daisaku Ikeda and Dialogue on Education, in Education and as Education
Jason Goulah
6. Daisaku Ikeda and Innovative Education
Wayne Hudson
Part 4. Dialogue on Global Issues
7. Perspectives of Daisaku Ikeda and South-South Network
Cristina Atieno
8. SGI's Dialogical Movement to Achieve a World without Nuclear Weapons
Kimiaki Kawai
Notes
References
Index