• Profile
  • 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
  • Photo Album
  • Curriculum Vitae
    • Curriculum Vitae
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  • Recollections
    • Encountering Josei Toda
    • A Mother's Love
    • A Conversation with My Wife
• Buddhist Philosopher
  • 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
• Peacebuilder
  • 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
• Educator
  • 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
• Proponent of Culture
  • 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
• Tribute
• Books
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  • Books by Category
    • History of Buddhism (3)
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  • 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
• Youth Action
  • Transforming Human History
    • Climate Action
    • Education for All
    • Nuclear Weapons Abolition
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Florence, Italy (May 1994)