Biography

• Bio: Overview
• Early Life
• Encountering a Mentor
• Attending "Toda University"
• Learning Leadership
• Political Involvement and Persecution
• Assuming the Presidency
• Trip to the USA
• The 1960s—Bold Beginnings
• Founding the Komei Party
• Further New Ventures
• The 1970s—Dialogue, Breaking New Ground
• Resignation
• The 1980s—Peace through Dialogue
• Excommunication
• Developing Educational Exchange
• A Question of Motivation

Timeline

• Timeline

Photo Album

• Photo Album

Curriculum Vitae

• Curriculum Vitae
• Profile Downloads

Recollections

• Encountering Josei Toda
• A Mother's Love
• A Conversation with My Wife

Buddhism in Action

• Buddhism in Action: Overview
• Buddhism and the Lotus Sutra
• A Universal Humanity
• Dialogue
• Buddhist Humanism
• Human Revolution
• The Role of Religion

Essays on Buddhism

• The Living Buddha
• The Flower of Chinese Buddhism
• The Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra
• What Is Human Revolution?
• Death Gives Greater Meaning to Life
• The Buddhist View of Life and Death

Philosophical Institute

• Institute of Oriental Philosophy

Advancing Peace

• Advancing Peace: Overview
• Opposition to War
• Developing a Culture of Peace
• Dialogue as the Path to Peace
• A Portrait of Citizen Diplomacy
• Sino-Japanese Relations
• Cultural Exchanges for Peace: Cuba
• Facing Up to Asia
• Peace Through Culture
• A Grassroots Movement

Peace Proposals

Essays on Peace

• A Mirror
• Strongholds for Peace
• The Courage of Nonviolence
• Religion Exists to Realize Peace
• Stop the Killing
• Memories of My Eldest Brother

Portraits of Global Citizens

• Aleksey N. Kosygin
• Chingiz Aitmatov
• Jose Abueva
• Maria Teresa Escoda Roxas
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Nelson Mandela
• Rosa Parks
• Wangari Maathai
• Zhou Enlai

Peace Institutes

• Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue
• Toda Peace Institute

Creative Education

• Creative Education: Overview
• Why Education?
• What is Value-Creating Education?
• Soka Education in Practice
• Wisdom and Knowledge
• Ikeda's Own Educational Influences
• An Educational Legacy
• A Global Network of Humanistic Education
• Educational Proposal
• Global Citizens and the Imperative of Peace

Education Proposals

• For a Sustainable Global Society: Learning for Empowerment and Leadership (2012)
• Education for Sustainable Development Proposal (2002)
• Reviving Education: The Brilliance of the Inner Spirit (2001)
• Building a Society That Serves the Essential Needs of Education (2000)

Essays on Education

• The Dawn of a Century of Humanistic Education
• The Tradition of Soka University
• Teachers of My Childhood
• Makiguchi's Philosophy of Education
• Treasuring Every Child
• Be Creative Individuals

Educational Institutes

• Makiguchi Foundation for Education
• Soka Schools
• Soka University, Japan
• Soka University of America

Cultivating the Human Spirit

• Cultivating the Human Spirit: Overview
• A Revitalizing Power
• Infusing Culture into the Soka Gakkai
• Cultural Institutes and Cultural Exchange
• A Culture of Dialogue

Essays on Culture

• Restoring Our Connections with the World
• The Flowering of Creative Life Force
• Fang Zhaoling
• Brian Wildsmith
• On Writing Children's Stories

Cultural Institutes

• Min-On Concert Association
• Tokyo Fuji Art Museum

Books by Category

• History of Buddhism
• Buddhist Philosophy
• Diaries / Novels
• Poetry
• Essays
• Dialogues
• Addresses
• Education
• Youth / Children

Author

Overview

• Overview

Dialogue with Nature

• Dialogue with Nature

Featured Photos

• Featured Photos

Overview

• Overview

Videos

• Videos

Podcasts

• This Beautiful Earth
• Stories of Hope

Records

• Curriculum Vitae
  • Profile Downloads
• Academic Honors
  • Academic Honors Conferred
  • Conferral Citations
• Literary Awards
• Full List of Published Dialogues
• Lectures Delivered
• Institutes Founded

Written Works

• Statements | Messages | Lectures
• Proposals
• Essays
  • Recollections
  • Buddhism
  • Peace
  • Education
  • Culture
  • Youth
  • Portraits of Global Citizens
  • Opinion Editorials
• Poetry

Interviews

• Interview Articles
  • IDN, Apr. 19, 2019
  • ­­­IDN-IPS, Jun. 21, 2010
  • ­­­IDN-IPS, Sep. 29, 2009
  • ­­­Tricycle, Winter 2008
  • ­­­IPS, Aug.1, 2008
  • ­­­IPS, Mar. 28, 2008
  • ­­­Emzin, Nov. 2003
  • Seikyo Shimbun, Dec. 25, 2001
  • Sankei Shimbun, Sep. 17, 2001

Commentaries

• Clark Strand
  • Tribute to Daisaku Ikeda
  • The Potter's Hand
  • Religion in Action
• Dr. Denis Brière
• Dr. Harvey Cox
• Dr. Jim Garrison
  • Interview
  • Reader's Response
• Dr. Jin Yong
• Kenneth M. Price
• Dr. Larry A. Hickman
• Dr. M. S. Swaminathan
• Dr. Lou Marinoff
• Dr. Mary Catherine Bateson
• Dr. Mikhail E. Sokolov
• Dr. N. Radhakrishnan
• Dr. Nadezda Shaydenko
• Dr. Nur Yalman
• Dr. Sarah Wider