Daisaku Ikeda com ex-Presidente da ABL,Drº Ataíde
Daisaku Ikeda (池田 大作 Tokyo, Japan, January 2, 1928) is a philosopher, writer, photographer, poet and Japanese Buddhist leader.
He graduated from the Faculty Fuji Junior. In 1947 he converted to Nichiren Buddhism with only nineteen and became a member of the Soka Gakkai, an organization that was then under the leadership of Josei Toda, its second president.
In 1958, the second Soka Gakkai president, Josei Toda, and died two years later, on May 3, 1960, Ikeda was appointed its third president. Under his leadership, the organization has progressed, reaching about thirteen million members in Japan, making it the largest organization of its kind in that country. To support the efforts of the Soka Gakkai, based on the Buddhist philosophy of Nichiren and in order to promote peace, culture and education, Ikeda founded over the years, educational and cultural institutions, including the School System Soka covering the pre-school to university, the Concert Association Min-On and Fuji Art Museum in Tokyo.
Five months after taking the third president, Daisaku Ikeda started on October 2 for their first trip abroad with a delegation of six leaders of the Soka Gakkai. He took in his jacket pocket a picture of his teacher with the feeling of making the trip in his place.
The trip covered nine cities in three countries: Honolulu, Hawaii, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, New York, Washington and Los Angeles (United States) Toronto (Canada) and Sao Paulo (Brazil).
In each of these cities, he structured the organization and Brazil founded the Brazil District, predecessor of the Association Brazil - SGI (BSGI). Since then, numerous trips were held around the world for peace.
The organization was being structured in different countries, resulting in the need to create International Soka Gakkai held in Guam, Hawaii, in 1975. Daisaku Ikeda, SGI President further boosted the movement for peace, culture and education. Today, SGI is present in approximately 200 countries and regions and carries out activities for the well-being of society.
Since 1967, when Ikeda proposed the normalization of Sino-Japanese relations, he engaged actively in the preparation and publication of proposals, addressed to the United Nations, dealing with issues of peace, disarmament, education and the environment. In addition, based on the belief that the first steps towards the realization of peace begin with the dialogue of life to life, has engaged in citizen diplomacy, meeting with political leaders and intellectuals from around the world, in an exchange of views on the challenges that stand to humanity. Some of these dialogues have been compiled in book form.
Daisaku Ikeda continues touring the world, actively applying the principles of Buddhist philosophy to the problems of humanity and striving vigorously to create a new era the twenty-first century - an era of hope, understanding, mutual respect and peace and prosperity informed in true humanism.
In addition, Daisaku Ikeda is a prolific author, writing novels, essays and poetry on a wide range of topics covering humanism, peace, society, youth, art and literature. His writings have been translated into over fourteen languages.
It was awarded in 2007 with the World Humanism Award for Humanism Academy of Macedonia.
Books of his own
Human Revolution (12 volumes)
New Human Revolution (23 volumes)
The Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra (dialogue with Katsuji Saito, Takenori Endo and Haruo Suda) (6 volumes)
Lecture of Hoben and Juryo chapters
The living Buddha
Buddhism the first millennium
Buddhism in China
Classics of Japanese Literature
Lasting peace (3 volumes)
Challenge A New Era of Peace
Choose Life (dialogue with Arnold Toynbee)
Life, Enigma, A Precious Jewel
Dialogue on Youth (3 volumes)
365 days - phrases for women
Before its too late (dialogue with en: Aurelio Peccei)
Human Rights in the XXI century (dialogue with Austregésilo de Athayde)
Human values in a changing world (dialogue with en Bryan R. Wilson)
The night calls for dawn (dialogue with fr: René Huyghe)
Planetary Citizenship (dialogue with en Hazel Henderson)
Being Human (dialogue with en René Simard (health professional) and Guy Bourgeault)
Astronomy and Buddhism - A Journey Into the Distant Universe (dialogue with the astronomer Ronaldo Rogério de Freitas Mourão)
Kayo oath - Collection of guidelines
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