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Japanese buddhist leader (1928–2023)
Daisaku Ikeda
Ikeda in 2010
Former President of Soka Gakkai International (SGI)
In office 26 January 1975 – 15 November 2023
Former Honorary President of Soka Gakkai
In office 24 April 1979 – 15 November 2023
3rd President of Soka Gakkai
In office 3 May 1960 – 24 April 1979
Preceded by
Jōsei Toda Tsunesaburō Makiguchi
Succeeded by
Hiroshi Hōjō (北条浩) Einosuke Akiya Minoru Harada
Personal details
Born
(1928-01-02)2 January 1928 Ōta, Tokyo, Japan
Died
15 November 2023(2023-11-15) (aged 95) Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Spouse
Kaneko Ikeda (池田香峯子)
Children
3 (1 deceased)
Parents
Ichi Ikeda (mother)
Nenokichi Ikeda (father)
Residence(s)
Japan, Tokyo, Shinjuku-Ku, Shinanomachi (信濃町)
Alma mater
Fuji Junior College (present-day Tokyo Fuji University)[1]
Website
daisakuikeda.org
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
Ikeda was the founding president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI), which claims to have approximately 11 million practitioners in 192 countries and territories,[3] more than 1.5 million of whom reside outside of Japan as of 2012.[4] Although these numbers are impossible to verify, recent research and surveys suggest that two percent of the Japanese population are active members of Soka Gakkai.
Ikeda was the founder of a variety of educational and cultural institutions including Soka University, Soka University of America, Min-On Concert Association and Tokyo Fuji Art Museum.[5] In Japan, he was also known for his international outreach to China.[6] In Japan, and many other countries, he has been described as a "controversial figure" over several decades from the 1970s. due to the ambivalent reputation of the Soka Gakkai— whose name has been linked to several political and financial scandals, cult of personality accusations, and his relation to the political party Kōmeitō, which he founded. He has been the subject of numerous articles, doubts and accusations in Japanese and international media.[7]: 3 [8]: 43 [9]: 147 [10]: 149 At his death, scholars and journalists described Ikeda as among the most polarizing and important figures in modern Japanese religion and politics.[11]
^"Daisaku Ikeda Profile". Soka University. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
^Métraux, Daniel A. (2012). Soka Gakkai International: Japanese Buddhism on a Global Scale(DOC). Staunton, Virginia: Virginia Consortium of Asian Studies and the Virginia Review of Asian Studies.
^Clark Strand (Winter 2008). "Faith in Revolution". Tricycle. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
^McLaughlin, Levi (2012). "Soka Gakkai in Japan". In Prohl, Inken; Nelson, John (eds.). Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Religions. Brill. pp. 269–308. ISBN 978-90-04-23436-9. Today, the group has a self-declared membership of 8.27 million households in Japan and more than 1.5 million adherents in 192 countries abroad under its overseas umbrella organization Soka Gakkai International, or SGI. Recent scholarship challenges theses figures and points to a figure in the neighborhood of two percent of the Japanese population.
^"UNIVERSITY FOUNDER". Soka University. Retrieved 14 May 2024.
^Motoko Rich (29 November 2023). "Daisaku Ikeda, Who Led Influential Japanese Buddhist Group, Dies at 95". The New York Times. On another front, Mr. Ikeda asked that the party push Japan to recognize the People's Republic of China; the two countries normalized diplomatic relations in 1972. Two years later, Mr. Ikeda met with Zhou Enlai, then the premier of the People's Republic, at a hospital in Beijing, where Mr. Zhou was being treated for cancer.
^Goulah, Jason (2010). "Daisaku Ikeda's Environmental Ethics of Humanitarian Competition: A Review of His United Nations Peace and Education Proposals" (PDF). Peace Studies Journal. 3 (1): 1–23. ISSN 2151-0806. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 December 2014. While Ikeda the subject of what Gamble and Watanabe (2004) argue is libelous and unfounded derision in Japanese media, he is recipient of, among numerous other awards, the United Nations Peace Prize (1983), the Rosa Parks Humanitarian Award (1993), the Simon Wiesenthal Center International Tolerance Award (1993), and the Education as Transformation Award (2001).
^Cite error: The named reference JSR-1999 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Métraux, Daniel A (1994). The Soka Gakkai Revolution. University Press of America. ISBN 9780819197337. Ikeda, possibly one of the more controversial figures in Japan's modern history, is the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of contemporary Japanese society—how one sees him depends on one's vantage point.
^Cite error: The named reference Lewis-2005 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"The Death of Ikeda Daisaku". Substack. Retrieved 14 May 2024.
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