"Daisaku Ikeda is respected throughout the Ten Directions. He has received more than three hundred honorary doctorates and awards" -- SGI leader

“Next, concerning your reverence for those who observe these practices, a teaching is not necessarily worthy of honor simply because its practitioners are respected. It is for this reason that the Buddha laid down the principle, ‘Rely on the Law and not upon persons.’" -- Conversations Between a Sage and an Unenlightened Man