45 research outputs found
A construção da memória e da identidade na Sôka Gakkai : breve análise de escritos de Daisaku Ikeda
No full textEste artigo enfoca a adaptação estratégica do discurso e da memória do movimento leigo budista japonês Soka Gakkai Internacional (SGI) ao longo de seu processo de legitimação e acomodação. Considerando-se que a SGI vem reescrevendo sua história após o cisma com a seita Nichiren Shoshu em 1991, privilegia-se duas obras de Daisaku Ikeda (“Revolução Humana” e “Nova Revolução Humana”) para se discutir a construção da memória e da identidade religiosa inspirando-se na idéia de “invenção de tradições” . ____________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACTThis article focus on the strategic adaptation of the rhetoric and memory of the Japanese lay Buddhist movement Soka Gakkai International (SGI), in its process of legitimization and accommodation. While acknowledging the fact that SGI has been rewriting its history after its excommunication in 1991 by the sect Nichiren Shoshu, the author, inspired by the idea of “invention of tradition,” takes two of Daisaku Ikeda’s work (“Human Revolution” and “New Human Revolution”) in order to discuss the construction of memory and religious identity
Philosophy and Human Revolution: Essays in Celebration of Daisaku Ikeda’s 90th Birthday
No full textThis book collects a series of philosophical papers dedicated to the figure and work of Daisaku Ikeda. The author’s interest in studying Ikeda’s work is not to carry out a specialised or disciplinary study of his Buddhist exegesis, or to offer a critical synthesis from the point of view of its basic doctrinal contents and references, nor to examine his creed and religious teaching.
Beyond the fact that Ikeda’s work has the double face of a construction founded on a Japanese philosophical-religious tradition with specific links to classical Chinese tradition, interfaced with the globe’s most representative literary, scientific and speculative cultural products, it was developed according to an intercultural design strongly marked by western rationality and a spiritual-speculative-pragmatic approach to life and the world.
Throughout this book, the author proposes an agnostic suspension in order to leave a place for philosophy and its argumentative constructions
Situating Daisaku Ikeda’s essential elements of global citizenship within contemporary scholarship: a qualitative meta-synthesis
No full textThis article reports on meta-synthesis research that examined contemporary scholarship on global citizenship for the purpose of identifying a possible alignment with Daisaku Ikeda’s views on global citizenship. Thirty relatively contemporary scholarly articles on the subject matter were examined using a qualitative meta-synthesis methodology. Ikeda’s speech entitled ‘Thoughts on education for global citizenship’, delivered over 25 years ago at Columbia University’s Teachers College, USA, contains his most frequently cited ideas on the salient conditions required for global citizenship. As Ikeda is a thoughtful and prolific author on the subject of global citizenship, there is merit in exploring the alignment of his ideas about this concept with those articulated in contemporary scholarship. Conducting a meta-synthesis through the lens of Ikeda’s essential elements of global citizenship has helped to identify potentially useful contributions to the global citizenship discourse. This article highlights salient common themes of global citizenship uncovered through the meta-synthesis research, as well as providing an alternative definition of global citizenship gleaned from the findings
Situating Daisaku Ikeda’s essential elements of global citizenship within contemporary scholarship: a qualitative meta-synthesis
No full textThis article reports on meta-synthesis research that examined contemporary scholarship on global citizenship for the purpose of identifying a possible alignment with Daisaku Ikeda’s views on global citizenship. Thirty relatively contemporary scholarly articles on the subject matter were examined using a qualitative meta-synthesis methodology. Ikeda’s speech entitled ‘Thoughts on education for global citizenship’, delivered over 25 years ago at Columbia University’s Teachers College, USA, contains his most frequently cited ideas on the salient conditions required for global citizenship. As Ikeda is a thoughtful and prolific author on the subject of global citizenship, there is merit in exploring the alignment of his ideas about this concept with those articulated in contemporary scholarship. Conducting a meta-synthesis through the lens of Ikeda’s essential elements of global citizenship has helped to identify potentially useful contributions to the global citizenship discourse. This article highlights salient common themes of global citizenship uncovered through the meta-synthesis research, as well as providing an alternative definition of global citizenship gleaned from the findings
The solidarization potencies of Buddhist axiological system and humanistic grounding of its priorities
No full textThe article is devoted to the analysis of the value system of the Buddhist religion in the context of current globalization trends. The author considers the stereotypes about the confrontation in the parameters “West – East” and offers the alternative view on the model of Buddhist values and its solidarization potencies. The author extrapolates her ideas on the intellectual and practical sense of a famous Buddhist philosopher Daisaku Ikeda. The author emphasizes the importance of a practical way of aesthetic and ethical projects initiated by Ikeda and justifies their humanistic social significance
«Non dubbiar, mentr’io ti guido». La ricezione buddista di Dante attraverso Daisaku Ikeda.
No full textDopo aver tratteggiato brevemente gli elementi essenziali della fortuna di Dante Alighieri in Giappone dall’era Meij fino al VII centenario dalla morte del Poeta, l’autrice intende indagare come il portato culturale e il carattere enciclopedico primariamente occidentale delle Opere dantesche vadano a creare un inusitato incontro con la cultura e le tradizioni buddista-shintoista nipponiche. Come dimostra la letteratura di riferimento, dopo un primo momento di ricezione obliqua e in traduzione delle opere dantesche, sempre più letterati e artisti giapponesi arrivano a confrontarsi direttamente con il classico in lingua italiana, dando avvio alle prime forme di traduzione della Commedia e ponendosi domande circa la possibilità reale di integrare questo universo all’interno del proprio sistema di riferimento. Durante la seconda fase di ricezione si riscontra una più marcata appropriazione culturale di tematiche ed elementi danteschi, arrivando alla creazione di un modello di riferimento Dante oggetto di molteplici tipi di rimediazione, fino alle riscritture contemporanee in chiave fumettistica e d’arte visiva. In questo progressivo adattamento di Dante in Giappone, l’autrice prenderà in esame la ricezione dantesca all’interno della Soka Gakkai, organizzazione buddista che vede negli insegnamenti di Nichiren Daishonin i propri capisaldi. Con la progressiva crescita e laicizzazione dell’organizzazione e con la conseguente espansione del movimento da oriente verso occidente, l’autrice intende indagare come la figura di Daisaku Ikeda sia stata determinante per la ricezione del Sommo Poeta all’interno del contesto culturale buddista contemporaneo. Mediante l’analisi di alcuni scritti del Dott. Ikeda in inglese e in italiano, mostrerà come il Presidente della Soka Gakkai International abbia utilizzato il Sommo Poeta come modello di uomo interprete di una religione attiva nella società, espressione della teoria della Rivoluzione Umana proposta dalla Soka Gakkai, e le sue Opere come base di studio a cui tendere per arricchire la popolazione nipponica grazie a una visione umanistica, emblema dello spirito di ricerca. Mediante l’utilizzo della figura del Sommo Poeta all’interno di scritti del Dott. Ikeda per i giovani, messaggi alle diverse nazioni, saggi di incoraggiamento e poesie, l’autrice desidera illustrare come la Soka Gakkai International arrivi a creare un common ground convergendo in un “nuovo rinascimento”, in cui mettere in relazione elementi della cultura e tradizione buddista con la matrice culturale occidentale, creando in ultima analisi i presupposti per una religione globale inclusiva e dinamica che vede nell’educazione, la cultura e la promozione della pace i propri obiettivi programmatici.After a brief outline of the essential elements of Dante Alighieri's fortune in Japan from the Meij era up to the 7th centenary of the poet's death, the author intends to investigate how the primarily Western cultural background and encyclopaedic character of Dante's works create an unusual encounter with Japanese Buddhist-Shintoist culture and traditions. As the reference literature shows, after an initial moment of oblique reception of Dante's works in translation, more and more Japanese writers and artists came to confront directly with the classic in Italian, starting the first forms of translation of the Comedy and asking themselves questions about the real possibility of integrating this universe within their reference system. During the second phase of reception, there is a more marked cultural appropriation of Dante's themes and elements, leading to the creation of a Dante reference model that is the object of multiple types of remediation, up to contemporary rewritings in comic strips and visual art. In this progressive adaptation of Dante in Japan, the author will examine Dante's reception within the Soka Gakkai, a Buddhist organisation whose cornerstones are the teachings of Nichiren Daishonin. With the progressive growth and secularisation of the organisation and the consequent expansion of the movement from East to West, the author intends to investigate how the figure of Daisaku Ikeda has been decisive in the reception of the Supreme Poet within the contemporary Buddhist cultural context. Through the analysis of some of Dr. Ikeda's writings in English and in Italian, she will show how the President of the Soka Gakkai International used the Supreme Poet as a model of a man who interprets a religion active in society, an expression of the theory of Human Revolution proposed by the Soka Gakkai, and his Works as a basis of study to which to strive to enrich the Japanese population thanks to a humanistic vision, emblematic of the spirit of research. Through the use of the figure of the Supreme Poet in Dr Ikeda's writings for young people, messages to the various nations, essays of encouragement and poems, the author wishes to illustrate how the Soka Gakkai International manages to create a common ground by converging in a “new renaissance”, in which elements of Buddhist culture and tradition are related to the Western cultural matrix, ultimately creating the conditions for an inclusive and dynamic global religion that sees education, culture and the promotion of peace as its programmatic objectives
ChemInform Abstract: Aryl 1‐Chloroalkyl Sulfoxides as Acyl Anion Equivalents: A New Synthesis of Vinyl Sulfides, Ketones, and Diketones from Aryl 1‐Chloroalkyl Sulfoxides and α,ω‐Dichloro‐α,ω‐disulfinylalkanes.
No full textSubglacial drainage system changes of the Gulkana Glacier, Alaska: discharge and sediment load observations and modelling
No full textHydrological characteristics of englacial and subglacial drainage systems in Gulkana Glacier, Alaska, were examined by analysing temporal variations of discharge and sediment load in the proglacial Phelan Creek in 2001. From data plots on semi-log paper, it appeared appropriate to separate both discharge and sediment load into fast and slow components. The two components were possibly produced by two different drainage systems: an englacial and subglacial, “channellized” system in the ablation zone, and a subglacial, “distributed” system in the accumulation zone. The data indicate the occurrence of an event during which part of the “distributed” drainage system changed into the “channellized” drainage system. The daily time-series of discharge and sediment load were represented using a tank model. In the model, the drainage from an additional tank was added, supposing that a subglacial reservoir full of water and sediment collapsed slowly when the subglacial drainage system changed from distributed to channellized. The simulation with the collapsed tank gave much more reasonable results than those with no collapsed tank. The contribution of the collapsed tank to total sediment load is 24%, which is much larger than 9% to total discharge. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Exploring novel microorganisms from lakes in the coastal ice-free area of Lützow-Holm Bay, East Antarctica
No full textThe 15th Symposium on Polar Science/Ordinary sessions [OB] Polar biology, Wed. 4 Dec. / Entrance Hall (1st floor), National Institute of Polar Researchconference outpu
A Synthesis of Diketones from Carbonyl Compounds and α,ω‐Dichloro‐α,ω‐disulfinylalkanes with two Carbon—Carbon Bond Formation via Bis‐sulfinyloxiranes.
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