Ode to the Grand Spirit: A Dialogue

by Daisaku Ikeda and Chingiz Aitmatov

'There is life hidden within stones. Only we human beings can give meaning to all things in the cosmos through thought and words'. With these haunting and resonant words did Kyrgyz writer and novelist Chingiz Aitmatov, who died in June 2008, summarise the dialogue that he undertook with leading Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda. Aitmatov is best known for his novella "Jamila", on the publication of which he achieved great fame in the Soviet Union in 1958...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845119878
• ISBN13: 9781845119874
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"