Boris Dmitrievich Pankin
Denomination: Nichiren Buddhist
Background
Ikeda, Daisaku was born on January 2, 1928 in Tokyo, Japan. Son of Nenokichi and Ichi Ikeda.
Education
- Graduate Economic Department, Fuji College; Doctorate (honorary), U of Glasgow, United Kingdom; Doctorate (honorary), Moscow State University, Bulgaria; Doctorate (honorary), Sofia University, Bulgaria; Doctorate (honorary), University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Doctorate (honorary), Ankara University, Turkey; Doctorate (honorary), University of Nairobi, Kenya; Doctorate (honorary), University of the Philippines; Doctorate (honorary), many others.
Career
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Assisted mentor Josei Toda, 1947—1958. President Soka Gakki, 1960—1979, Honorary President, since 1979. President Soka Gakkai International, since 1975.
Poet Laureate World Academy of Arts and Culture, since 1981. Honorary Professor National University of San Marcos, 1981, Beijing University, 1984, and others. Honorary Senator European Academy of Sciences and Arts, since 1997.
Honorary Advisory World Federation of United Nations Associations, since 1999. Founder Soka University, Soka University of America, Soka Women's College, Tokyo, Kansai Soka Schools, Soka Kindergartens, Makiguchi Foundation of Education, Institute of Oriental Philosophical, Boston Research Center for 21st Century, Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research, Tokyo, Shizuoka Fuji Art Museum, Min-On Concert Association, Victor Hugo House of Literature and Komeito Party. Foreign member Brazilian Acad of Letters, since 1993.
Member Advisory Board World Centers of Compassion for Children International, Ireland, since 2004.
Works
- For the Sake of Peace: Seven Paths to Global Harmony: A Buddhist Perspective
- Based on 20 years of university lectures and proposals to the United Nations, this book addresses the issue of peace from the Buddhist perspective of compassion, interconnectedness of all life, and absolute respect for human life.
- For the Sake of Peace: A Buddhist Perspective for the 21st Century
- Based on 20 years of university lectures and proposals to the United Nations, this book addresses the issue of peace from the Buddhist perspective of compassion, interconnectedness of all life, and absolute respect for human life.
- The Way of Youth: Buddhist Common Sense for Handling Life's Questions
- Daisaku Ikeda, who offers spiritual leadership to 12 million Soka Gakkai Buddhists throughout the world, responds to the complicated issues facing American young people in a straightforward question-and-answer format.
- Unlocking the Mysteries of Birth and Death: Buddhism in the Contemporary World
- Now in paperback, an outline of Buddist patterns of thought, which the author claims can offer release from the suffering of birth, old age, sickness and death.
