Daisaku Ikeda Quotes


When we have a genuine sense that,
no matter how difficult our present
circumstances, we are not alone-that
we are vitally connected with others
and with the world-we will, without
fail, rise up to the challenge of living
again.


Citations

Ikeda, Daisaku. Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays. Middleway Press, 2017.

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Daisaku Ikeda
Daisaku Ikeda
  • Born: January 2, 1928
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Profession: Writer

Daisaku Ikeda is a Japanese Buddhist philosopher, educator, author, and nuclear disarmament advocate. He has served as the third president and then honorary president of the Soka Gakkai, the largest of Japan's new religious movements. Ikeda is the founding president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI), the world's largest Buddhist lay organization, which declares approximately 12 million practitioners in 192 countries and territories, of whom more than 1.5 million reside outside of Japan as of 2012.:269