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Article: Photographer-poet promotes peace
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- Sunday Star-Times
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- November 3, 1996
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FROM Japan with love comes an exhibition with a difference:
Daisaku Ikeda's Dialogue With Nature, a collection of more than 80
photographs and a selection of his poetry.
Unless you practise Nichiren Diashonin Buddhism, you won't know
who Ikeda is. But to those who do -- and millions are dotted around
the globe -- he's their leader, their connection to the mission of
world peace through cultural exchange. He heads the lay Buddhist
organisation Soka Gakkai International, which started in New Zealand
in 1975 and has about 500 followers here.
Dialogue With Nature has been taken to 30 countries in 10 years.
It consists of images Ikeda ...