On Female View Of Daisaku Ikeda

Daisaku Ikeda is a famous Buddhist philosopher, educator and poet. Many of his works have revealed a lot of positive thoughts, such as caring about women's lives, respecting for women's personality, praising the value of female, improving women's social status and so on. Through text reading, this paper systematically divide Mr. Ikeda's female view into four aspects , which are concerning the status of women, the roles of women, the valuation of women and the liberation of women. The Method of Impact study is used in this thesis to analyze the influence of Japanese traditional culture and Buddhist thoughts in Ikeda's works, which elicites the special national characteristics and Buddhist characteristics. With the Method of Parallel Study and in reference with the viewpoints of Confucian concept of women and Western feminism, Mr. Ikeda's stickiness to the tradition and adaption of ideas in modernization on feminism has been revealed.The first chapter is focus on Mr. Ikeda's opinion about the status of women, which is men and women are born fair yet males and females should be treated differently. The former emphasizes on men and women's equality on religious significance, and the latter on the difference of their social significance. Therefore, Ikeda's viewpoint of the status of women is admitting a difference on an equal footing, which is different from the concept of patriarchy patriarchal society, and also different from the liberal feminist's equality on the social equality of significance. We can look at Mr. Ikeda on such a surface compatible opinion: First, a different starting point, the former derived from the Buddhist concept of equality, while the latter is originated from the cognition of the true colors of human society. And the Japanese national Flexible mode of thinking and the "Mean Theory" of Buddhism are also enabling him to make some superficial opposites together skillfully.The second chapter discuss Mr. Ikeda's viewpoint about the roles of women, namely women play roles in the life as wives, mothers, as well as herself. He considers that the family takes up the most important part of woman's life, and this opinion can easily be labeled with "male chauvinism", but it has its breeding soil behind, which was consisted of Japanese specific social, cultural, family traditions. There are the long-standing division of family roles, the moral standards of self-denial and the Bushido spirit of self-sacrifice, the collective identity of abiding by obligation and the collectivism.The third chapter expounds Mr. Ikeda's high evaluation of women: women play an irreplaceable role at home, they are the pillar and the sun, and innate pacifists, and women's strength can change the world. Deferent with the feminists' position to safeguard the rights of women and glorify the value of women, Mr. Ikeda, holding the whole human being's interests and future of humanity together, highly praised women's value. His objective is to make women play a role which is different from men, with tenderness and warmth replacing cold competition, with trust harmony resentment replacing suspicion, with belief in a peaceful symbiosis of the deep-rooted bad habits replacing the self-exclusion, with a culture of peace to replacing the culture of war, letting human beings away from war, and being in permanent peace.The fourth chapter is focus on Mr. Ikeda's point of women liberation. Mr. Ikeda objects the Western feminist movement only stands in political and social position. He is eager to shaking off the habit of feudal forces and the legal struggle against the constraints method. He opposed to women from motherhood liberate ideas, or even think that women's liberation movement lack of sense of urgency. He supported the "love economy", and approved of the program of giving the mother of wages. He believed that the liberation of women lies in that women should establish their own subjectivity, and continue to promote awareness of change.