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tsukimoto
And THIS organization honored Ikeda? Some honor! I wonder how much money you have to donate to be chosen as World Poet Laureate.
It was no surprise to find that WORLD POETRY SOCIETY INTERCONTINENTAL, the organisation that named Senseless as World Poet Laureate, was under his Patronage. Although we've lost the original links, fortunately the webpage that reveals this is still there at [
poetryworldpublications.weebly.com]. Look further down the page to see who the patron of this (very dodgy now defunct) organisation was. I've pasted the info below and saved the original webpage at Freezepage now.
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POETRY WORLD PUBLICATIONS
THE PUBLICATIONS DIVISION OF
WORLD POETRY SOCIETY
INTERCONTINENTAL
Africa - Anglo-America - Asia - Europe - Latin America – Oceania
Whose Voice for Peace is "Poetry World".
(Founder - President : The Late Dr. KRISHNA SRINIVAS)
We publish Poetry Books and Poetry Monthly
POETRY WORLD
International Monthly
Edited and Published by
S. Krishnan, M. E.,Secretary General of WPSI
(Which is continuation of POET International Monthly edited and published by
the late Dr. Krishna Srinivas for 48 full years, till 2008)
Under the patronage of
DR. DAISAKU IKEDA, President, S.G.I., Tokyo, Japan.Title of poetry books and others pages under construction
Contact us at:
118, Raja Street, Dr. Seethapathi Nagar, Velachery, Chennai - 600042, INDIA
Phones: 9144-22432902, 9144-22433186.
E-mail <
poetworld@gmail.com >
Website: [
poetryworldpublications.weebly.com]
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It was reading in an SGI booklet of poems that Senseless was 'World Poet Laureate' that was one of the final straws that brought me to my senses about the SGI cult scam. I was so horrified that someone who wrote such awful stuff would dare to compare himself to Tennyson etc that it made me really think about and research the whole thing.
So he bought the company that subsequently gave him the honour. A fitting action for a Buddhist leader don't you think?
And hey, if you are still in SGI and reading this, and trying to think of excuses for this behaviour by claiming that it is his over-enthusiastic followers who organise all these bogus honours for Senseless remember that, were Ikeda an honourable Buddhist leader, he would ask his followers to stop doing stuff like this. He would surely be embarrassed at receiving bogus honours? Have no doubt that Daisaku Ikeda is a con-artist who seems to suffer from Narcissistic Personality Disorder. This is not a person who should be revered as a buddhist leader or anyone's 'mentor'. Wake up! (I did, thank goodness).