Daisaku Ikeda
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Daisaku Ikeda（May 2010）
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 President of Soka Gakkai International (SGI) |
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Assumed office 26 January 1975 |
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Honorary President of Soka Gakkai
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Assumed office 24 April 1979 |
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President of Soka Gakkai Hiroshi Hojo () Einosuke Akiya Minoru Harada |
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3rd President of Soka Gakkai
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In office 3 May 1960 – 24 April 1979 |
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| Preceded by |
Jōsei Toda Acting President Takashi Koizumi（小泉隆） |
| Succeeded by | Hiroshi Hojo () |
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2 January 1928  Japan, Tokyo, Ōta
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| Spouse(s) | Kaneko Ikeda () |
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 Japan, Tokyo, Shinjuku-Ku, Shinanomachi () |
| Alma mater | Fuji Junior College (present-day Tokyo Fuji University) |
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| Website | daisakuikeda |
Daisaku Ikeda (池田 大作 Ikeda Daisaku?, born 2 January 1928, Japan) is a Buddhist philosopher, educator, author, and anti-nuclear activist. He served as the third president and the honorary president of the Soka Gakkai, the largest of Japan's new religious movements. Ikeda is the founding president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI), the world's largest Buddhist lay organization, with approximately 12 million practitioners in 192 countries and regions.
Ikeda was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1928, to a family of seaweed farmers. He survived the devastation of World War II as a teenager, which he said left an indelible mark on his life and fueled his quest to solve the fundamental causes of human conflict. At age 19, Ikeda began practicing Nichiren Buddhism and joined a youth group of the Soka Gakkai Buddhist association, which led to his lifelong work developing the global peace movement of SGI and founding numerous institutions dedicated to fostering peace, culture and education.
Ikeda's vision for the SGI has been described by academic observers as a "borderless Buddhist humanism that emphasizes free thinking and personal development based on respect for all life." In the 1960s, Ikeda worked to reopen Japan's relationship with China, to establish the Soka education network of humanistic schools from kindergartens through universities, and he began writing The Human Revolution. In the 1970s, he established the Soka Gakkai International and initiated numerous international educational and cultural exchanges for peace. Since the 1980s, he has continually increased his anti-nuclear activism and citizen diplomacy.
As of 2015, Ikeda has published more than 50 dialogues with scholars, peace activists and leading world figures. In his role as SGI president, Ikeda has visited 55 nations and spoken on subjects including peace, environment, economics, women's rights, interfaith dialogue, nuclear disarmament, Buddhism and science, and various other topics. Every year on the anniversary of the SGI's founding, January 26, Ikeda submits a peace proposal to the United Nations.
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