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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 ...
Auburn, California. / 38.89861°N 121.07444°W / 38.89861; -121.07444. Auburn is a city in and the county seat of Placer County, California, United States. [10] Its population was 13,776 during the 2020 census.
Soka University of America ( SUA) is a private liberal arts college in Aliso Viejo, California. [8] Originally founded in 1987, it was established on its current campus in 2001 by Daisaku Ikeda, the founder of the Soka Gakkai International Buddhist movement. Though affiliated with Soka Gakkai, it maintains a secular curriculum [9] which ...
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 ...
NBC News' Emilie Ikeda shares emotional family story from Japanese internment camps. Scott Stump. This weekend marks 81 years since more than 125,000 people of Japanese ancestry living in the U.S ...
On November 15, 2023, I lost my mentor in life, Daisaku Ikeda, who passed away at 95. Ikeda Sensei, a prominent figure in the modern evolution of Nichiren Buddhism, was the third president of the ...
Soka Gakkai International ( SGI) is an international Nichiren Buddhist organisation run by two vice-presidents including Hiromasa Ikeda. It was founded in 1975 by his father, Daisaku Ikeda, as an umbrella organization of Soka Gakkai. As of 2021, and for the past 30 years, the SGI claims approximately 12 million adherents in 192 countries and ...
In 1979, Ikeda became the honorary president of the global wing of the sect called Soka Gakkai International, which claims 2.8 million members in over 190 countries and territories.