Daisaku Ikeda
Daisaku Ikeda born in Tokyo the January 2nd 1928, is honorary president of the Sōka Gakkai, and chair of Sōka Gakkai international.
Novelist, critical, essay writer, poet, professor and honorary doctor several universities, the the United Nations decreed to him their price of peace in 1983. He is honorary member of the Club of Rome.
Born in Tokyo on January 2nd, 1928, Daisaku Ikeda meets Josei Toda at the 19 years age and starts to practice the Bouddhisme Nichiren under its supervision. May 3rd, 1960, two years after the death of Toda, he becomes the third president of Sōka Gakkai. The same year, it begins a series of voyages to make known Buddhism of Nichiren out of Japan. In 1964 it created Kōmeitō (current New Kōmeitō), political party regularly supported by Sōka Gakkai. Following its meetings with personalities of various horizons, books of talks are published approaching the multiple stakes of our time. The first of its talks takes place in 1972 with the British historian Arnold Joseph Toynbee. In 1975, it is named president of Sōka Gakkai international (SGI).
As a president of the SGI, it founded several educational, cultural institutes and of research: the Institute of Eastern philosophy in 1962, the Association in the Min concerts one in 1963, the Soka university of Tokyo in 1971 and in Orange County (the United States) in 2001, the museum of art Fuji of Tokyo in 1983, the literary House of Victor Hugo in Bièvres in 1991, the Toda Institute for the peace and a prospective policy in 1996, the Research center ecological of Amazonia close to Manaus (Brazil) and the Research center of Boston for the 21e century in 1993.
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