Daisaku Ikeda

Also known as Dazuo Chitian, Ta-tso Chʻih-tʻien, Ikeda Daisaku

Japanese Buddhist leader (1928–2023)

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Born: 1928-01-02
Died: 2023-11-15
Works: 502

Top works

Recollections of My Meetings with Leading World Figures = Sekai no shidosha to kataru [Japanese Edition]
Creating a century without war through human solidarity
指導集
Mahayana Buddhism and twenty-first century civilization
佛敎一千年

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Type: Person
Active from: 1966-07-08

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Listeners: 8
Total plays: 75

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5 total works indexed

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Quotes

“Buddhism is an earnest struggle to win. This is what the Daishonin teaches. A Buddhist must not be defeated. I hope you will maintain an alert and winning spirit in your work and daily life, taking courageous action and showing triumphant actual proof time and again.”
“Life passes by in an instant. In the twinkling of an eye, we grow old. Our physical strength wanes and we began to suffer various aches and pains. We practice Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism so that instead of sinking into feelings of sadness, loneliness and regret, we can greet old age with inner richness and maturity, as round and complete as the ripe, golden fruit of autumn.”
“Prayer become manifest in action, and action has to be backed up by prayer. Only then can we elicit a response from the Buddhist deities and all Buddhism. Those who pray and take action for kosen-rufu are the Buddha's emissaries. They cannot fail to realize lives in which all desires are fulfilled.”
“In the inner realm of life, cause and effect occur simultaneously. What ever the person desire with the passage of time, this causal relationship becomes manifest in the phenomental world of daily life. This is the ultimate law of whole universe.”
“Leadership is not a matter of ordering people around but of first taking action yourself. By initiating action yourself, you will win others' trust, and they, in turn, will take action.”
“After fully hearing out the views of everyone, one should judge things impartially and come to a decision. And once one has done so, one should rise to implement it without vacillation. Please make united efforts that demonstrate responsiveness to others' views.”

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Key facts

Preceded by: Jōsei Toda , Tsunesaburō Makiguchi
Succeeded by: Hiroshi Hōjō ( 北条浩 ), Einosuke Akiya , Minoru Harada
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)
Alma mater: Fuji Junior College (present-day Tokyo Fuji University )
Website: daisakuikeda .org

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Family name: Ikeda
Gender: male
Citizenship: Empire of Japan
Place of birth: Tokyo
Place of death: Shinjuku
Occupation: pedagogue
Languages spoken: Japanese
Religion: Buddhism
Award: Order of Friendship
Field of work: philosophy
Image: DaisakuIkedaTokyoMay2010.jpg
Number of children: 3
Residence: Shinjuku

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Commons category: Daisaku Ikeda
date of birth: 1928-01-02
name in native language: 池田大作
different from: Daisuke Ikeda
date of death: 2023-11-15
name in kana: いけだだいさく
member of: Club of Rome
manner of death: natural causes
cause of death: senility

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Encyclopedic overview

Daisaku Ikeda (池田大作, Ikeda Daisaku; 2 January 1928 – 15 November 2023) was a Japanese Buddhist leader, author, educator and nuclear disarmament advocate. He served as the third president and then honorary president of the Soka Gakkai, which is considered among the largest of Japan's new religious movements, but has also been described as a cult by medias ("Soka Gakkai has many of the markings of a cult") and politicians (the French parliamentary commission in 1995).

Ikeda was the founding president of the Soka Gakkai International. Although a claimed Japanese membership of 8.27 million households, recent research and surveys suggest that between 2.5 million and 4 million people - approximately two to three percent of the Japanese population - are active members of Soka Gakkai, and the organization claims to have approximately 11 million practitioners in 192 countries and territories, more than 1.5 million of whom reside outside of Japan as of 2012.

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