Activities

Special Lectures

The IOP regularly conducts and sponsors special lectures, some of which are listed below:

1986: "Current Status and Issues Related to the Research of Sanskrit Manuscripts of the Lotus Sutra," Yukata Iwamoto, Professor, Soka University

1987: "Buddhist Though in Modern Japan," Noriyoshi Tamaru, Professor, Tokyo University

1988: "New Science and Buddhism," Koshiro Tamaki, Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University

1989: "History and Buddhism- Life and Body: Noritoshi Aramaki, Professor, Osaka University

1991: Clergy and Laymen in Mahayana Buddhism," Yuichi Kajiyama, Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University

1992: "Religion and Time," Tsuneya Wakimoto, Professor, Komazawa University

1992: "Characteristics of Mahayana Buddhism," Akira Hirakawa, Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University

1994: "'The Conditions and Responsibilities of World Religions," Jan Van Bragt, Professor, Nanzan University

1995: "On Religious Tolerance," Kuniyasu Take, Professor, Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts

1997: "The 21^st Century and the Lotus Sutra," Jiang Zhongxin, member of the Asia-Pacific institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

1999: "Life and Death in Nature," Hideo Obara, professor at Kagawa Nutrition University

In December 1999, special lectures were held to commemorate the release of the book Utsukushi shishi no tamashii, (The Lion's Heart, a collection of intercultural dialogs between IOP founder Daisaku Ikeda and Profesor Axinia D. Djourova of Bulgaria's Sophia Univerity) at Tokyo and Kyoto. The speakers at this occasion were Kenji Terashima, Lecturer at Chiba University (for Tokyo) and Kristeva Tzevetana, Professor at Chukyo Women's University (for Kyoto).

March 2002: "Universal Values and Scientific Ethics," Helmut Burkhardt, founding president of the Council on Global Issues and an adjunct professor of physics at Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, Canada