Daisaku Ikeda
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Japanese Buddhist leader (1928–2023)
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
via Wikipedia infobox
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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