Unlocking the Mysteries of Birth and Death

About the author: quoting from the dust jacket, Daisaku Ikeda was born in Tokyo in 1928. . . Since 1975 he has been president of the Soka Gakkai International, a lay Buddhist organization for the promotion of education, culture and peace, with a membership of ten million in Japan and 1.3 million in other countries. [His writings cover a wide range of subjects. with special emphasis on Buddhism and have been translated into six languages]." About the book: quoting from the dust jacket, "[This book] is both a clear, concise introduction to a 2500-year-old tradition and an examination of its application to contemporary existence. In a world riven by conflict and the competition for material comforts, argues Ikeda, Buddhist patterns of show more thought provide a vehicle by which human beings can understand what is universally human and thus escape from the anger, despair, greed and envy indivisible from selfish cravings and appetites." This work is well indexed and contains a glossary. show less