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Daisaku Ikeda (池田 大作, Ikeda Daisaku, 2 January 1928 – 15 November 2023) was a Japanese Buddhist leader, author, philosopher, educator and businessman. He served as the third president and then honorary president of the Soka Gakkai, the largest of Japan's new religious movements. [ 2 ]: 5 At this time, he became a controversial leader ...
Soka Gakkai International. Soka Gakkai International (SGI) is an international Nichiren Buddhist organization founded in 1975 by Daisaku Ikeda, as an umbrella organization of Soka Gakkai. It is run by two vice-presidents, including Hiromasa Ikeda, son of the founder. It claims 12 million adherents, but scholars fear the number is overrated.
Ikeda urged, from 1964, a gentler approach to proselytizing. [103] [104] Under Ikeda's leadership, the organization expanded rapidly, both inside and outside Japan during the 1960s. Soka Gakkai's own narratives argue that within the first 16 months of Ikeda's presendency the organization grew from 1.3 million to 2.1 million members. [105]
To Ikeda, happiness was about “being true to yourself,” which, he believed, allowed happiness to grow in an infinite way. Ikeda was born in Tokyo, on Jan. 2, 1928, to a family of seaweed farmers.
Ikeda was born in Tokyo on Jan. 2, 1928, the fifth of eight children of Nenoki and Ichi, who ran a small seaweed firm. In 1947 he met Josei Toda, then leader of the Soka Gakkai organisation, who ...
Gohonzon (御本尊) is a generic term for a venerated religious object in Japanese Buddhism.It may take the form of a scroll or statuary. The term gohonzon typically refers to the mainstream use of venerated objects within Nichiren Buddhism, referring to the calligraphic paper mandala inscribed by the 13th Japanese Buddhist priest Nichiren to which devotional chanting is directed.
Daisaku Ikeda (1928–2023), a Japanese Buddhist philosopher, educator, author and nuclear disarmament advocate, received many honors around the world. At the time of his death, he was president of Soka Gakkai International and honorary president of Soka Gakkai.
SUA is a secular college founded by Daisaku Ikeda, the President of Soka Gakkai International (SGI). SUA's philosophical foundation originated in the work of Tsunesaburō Makiguchi, who was the first President of Soka Gakkai (previous name Soka Kyoiku Gakkai) and created a society for educators dedicated to social and educational reform in Japan during the years leading up to World War II.