In this book, SGI President Daisaku Ikeda explains the Gosho ‘On Attaining Buddhahood in this Lifetime’, written by Nichiren Daishonin to his staunch follower.
“Global Civilization” emerged from a series of conversations between two peace advocates of Japanese and Iranian origin. It covers the encounters between Buddhist and Islamic civilisations from the 7th century to the present.
According to Rene Huyghe, throughout human history, any given society of human beings has functioned with little interest in what lay beyond its reach other than its needs for survival.