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Daisaku Ikeda

1928 - 2023

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Daisaku Ikeda (池田 大作, Ikeda Daisaku, 2 January 1928 – 15 November 2023) was a Japanese Buddhist leader, author, and educator. He served as the third president and then honorary president of the Soka Gakkai, the largest of Japan's new religious movements.: 5  Ikeda was the founding president of the Soka Gakkai International, which claims to have approximately 11 million practitioners in 192 countries and territories, more than 1.5 million of whom reside outside of Japan as of 2012. Although these numbers are difficult to verify, due to varying levels of participation, recent research and surveys suggest that between 2.5 million and 4 million people - approximately two to three percent of the Japanese population - are active members of Soka Gakkai. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Daisaku Ikeda has received more than 822,921 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Daisaku Ikeda is the 563rd most popular philosopher (up from 713th in 2019), the 404th most popular biography from Japan (up from 624th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Philosopher.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Daisaku Ikeda ranks 563 out of 1,267. Before him are Nicos Poulantzas, Manuel Chrysoloras, Silvia Federici, John Austin, Liu Bowen, and Tom Regan. After him are Zoilus, Bion of Borysthenes, Alan Watts, Bernardino Telesio, Zaleucus, and Arthur Danto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Daisaku Ikeda ranks 115. Before him are Malcolm Glazer, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Djivan Gasparyan, Al Lettieri, Paul Elvstrøm, and John Stewart Bell. After him are Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Edward Albee, Hannah Pick-Goslar, Natalie Zemon Davis, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, and Bo Diddley. Among people deceased in 2023, Daisaku Ikeda ranks 119. Before him are Jean-Pierre Jabouille, Ruth Fuchs, Ken Mattingly, Ben Ferencz, Petar Zhekov, and Juanita Castro. After him are Tom Courtney, Reino Börjesson, Glenda Jackson, Robbie Robertson, Adolf Scherer, and Natalie Zemon Davis.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Daisaku Ikeda ranks 404 out of 6,245. Before him are Emperor Juntoku (1197), Ono no Komachi (825), Yodo-dono (1569), Shuji Nakamura (1954), Kunisada (1786), and Yoshimatsu Oyama (null). After him are Tetsu Katayama (1887), Saizo Saito (1908), Seki Takakazu (1642), Seishiro Shimatani (1938), Haruo Arima (null), and Hisaichi Terauchi (1879).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Japan

Among philosophers born in Japan, Daisaku Ikeda ranks 3. Before him are Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835), and Masanobu Fukuoka (1913). After him are Kitaro Nishida (1870), Hakuin Ekaku (1686), Hayashi Razan (1583), Motoori Norinaga (1730), Arai Hakuseki (1657), and Ogyū Sorai (1666).

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