Within REAL Buddhism, it is considered a great sin to take credit for doing good. Or for doing anything!

See, taking credit betrays pride, even hubris, and the desire to be admired, all of which are hallmarks of delusion and attachment, indicating that the individual in question is QUITE far from enlightenment. Here are some very good explanations, which I will copy in their original form:

Ikeda isn’t dead. And I cannot imagine a teacher or leader, lay or otherwise, from another Buddhist tradition who would even WANT stuff named after him. They are far more likely to insist that nothing ever be named after them. Like I said, it’s transparent vanity, which is very un-Buddhist.

(V)anity plaques (such as on a donated building) might be OK if the “philanthropist” doesn’t claim to be the spiritual leader of a large number of Buddhists. Even then, I think it’s extremely unusual for a philanthropist to insist that whatever his gift builds be named for him. It’s more common for the object to be named for an organization or foundation or as a memorial.

However, for someone who claims to be a Buddhist spiritual leader, such vanity is a big warning flag that ought to concern you. I say again, if the leader of any other school of Buddhism — or an abbot, or a priest, or a monk — went around insisting that his institution spend money all over the place buying him honors and having things named after him, it would be a major scandal.

There’s a huge, honking difference between “having one’s name associated with a contribution” and “offering to contribute to a public park on the condition that a gate be named after oneself.” If you can’t see that, you’re blind. And if you can’t see that a Buddhist spiritual leader should be held to a different standard from others — the standard being the teachings of Buddhism — then you’re doubly blind.

Does anyone agree it's time for an "Opening of the Eyes"???

(T)he organization is damaged by the cult of personality surrounding Ikeda, and that’s plain as day to everyone who is not caught up in it. Wake up.

(T)here are countless Buddhist teachers on the planet with equally impressive credentials — some more so, actually — but no one is spending money like a drunken sailor seeing to it they are all similarly “honored.” It makes Ikeda look vain and cheap, and if you all had genuine respect for the man as a spiritual teacher (and assuming he is not, in fact, vain and cheap) SGI would stop doing stuff like this.

(I)n Buddhism “perfection of giving” is one of the Six Perfections, a very important teaching, and the ideal is to give with no attachment, ideally anonymously. Monks in Japan who go on begging rounds wear big straw hats that partly obscure their faces and eyesight, so that giver and receiver remain anonymous to each other. Offering money only on condition that some public structure be named after a living person who is the head of the donating organization is a bit creepy by western standards, but by Buddhist standards it’s immoral. [Source}(http://buddhism.about.com/b/2010/04/02/buying-respect-for-ikeda.htm)

Which sounds more Buddhist - living a humble and anonymous life of service to others, or wearing $5000 suits, making a bit deal of hobnobbing with the Rich and Famous, and paying to have your name prominently displayed everywhere? Notice I didn't even have to mention having complete strangers pressured to regard you as their master in life...