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      • Encountering a Mentor
      • Attending "Toda University"
      • Learning Leadership
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      • 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
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      • A Mother's Love
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      • Buddhism and the Lotus Sutra
      • A Universal Humanity
      • Dialogue
      • Buddhist Humanism
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      • 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
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    • 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
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      • Nuclear Disarmament Proposal
      • UN Proposal
      • Normalization of Sino-Japanese Relations
    • 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
      • Fang Zhaoling
      • Jose Abueva
      • Kenneth D. Kaunda
      • Maria Teresa Escoda Roxas
      • Mikhail Gorbachev
      • Nelson Mandela
      • Rosa Parks
      • Wangari Maathai
      • Zhou Enlai
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      • Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
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      • 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
      • Education for Sustainable Development Proposal (2002)
    • 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
      • The Flowering of Creative Life Force
      • Be Creative Individuals
    • Educational Institutes
      • Makiguchi Foundation for Education
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      • Soka University (Japan)
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    • 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
      • Be Creative Individuals
      • Fang Zhaoling
      • Maria Teresa Escoda Roxas
      • Brian Wildsmith
      • On Writing Children's Stories
    • Cultural Institutes
      • Min-On Concert Association
      • Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
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        • ­­­IPS, Mar. 28, 2008
        • ­­­Emzin, Nov. 2003
        • Seikyo Shimbun, Dec. 25, 2001
        • Sankei Shimbun, Sep. 17, 2001
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        • The Potter's Hand
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Educator Essays

The Dawn of a Century of Humanistic Education (Seikyo Shimbun newspaper, Jan. 1, 2000)
The Tradition of Soka University (Seikyo Shimbun newspaper, Mar. 15, 1998)
­Teachers of My Childhood, from One by One
Makiguchi's Philosophy of Education
Treasuring Every Child
The Flowering of Creative Life Force, speech excerpt, Soka University, Apr. 18, 1974
Be Creative Individuals, speech excerpt, Soka University, Apr. 9, 1973
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