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PHILOSOPHER

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 businessman. He served as the third president and then honorary president of the Soka Gakkai, the largest of Japan's new religious movements.: 5  At this time, he became a controversial leader, in Japan and abroad. Ikeda is the founding president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI), which claims to have approximately 12 million practitioners in 192 countries and territories, more than 1.5 million of whom reside outside of Japan as of 2012. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Daisaku Ikeda has received more than 780,181 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Daisaku Ikeda is the 713th most popular philosopher (down from 690th in 2019), the 626th most popular biography from Japan (down from 611th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Philosopher.

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.96

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Daisaku Ikeda ranks 713 out of 1,081. Before him are Yang Xiong, Asclepigenia, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Arnold Geulincx, Hermann von Keyserling, and Peter John Olivi. After him are Jakob Lorber, Pantaenus, Anania Shirakatsi, Alexander Zinoviev, Li Zhi, and Jean Vanier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Daisaku Ikeda ranks 167. Before him are Adrian Frutiger, Pavel Kohout, Gerald Bull, Branko Mikulić, Maurice Sendak, and Wolfhart Pannenberg. After him are Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, Jean Vanier, Édouard Molinaro, Robert Badinter, Charles Gray, and Stuart Whitman. Among people deceased in 2023, Daisaku Ikeda ranks 103. Before him are Oleg Protopopov, Glenda Jackson, Marc Augé, Philippe Sollers, Vakhtang Kikabidze, and Treat Williams. After him are Ahmed Qurei, Antonella Lualdi, Doyle Brunson, Daniel Ellsberg, Luis Garavito, and Hélène Carrère d'Encausse.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Daisaku Ikeda ranks 626 out of 6,048. Before him are Gotō Shinpei (1857), Jiro Taniguchi (1947), Senjūrō Hayashi (1876), Yuriko Koike (1952), Kenji Tochio (1941), and Uesugi Kagekatsu (1556). After him are Hiroshi Inagaki (1905), Chōjun Miyagi (1888), Kunihiko Kodaira (1915), Yoshida Shōin (1830), Hakaru Hashimoto (1881), and Teiichi Matsumaru (1909).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Japan

Among philosophers born in Japan, Daisaku Ikeda ranks 4. Before him are Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835), Masanobu Fukuoka (1913), and Kitaro Nishida (1870). After him are Motoori Norinaga (1730), Hakuin Ekaku (1686), Hayashi Razan (1583), Arai Hakuseki (1657), and Ogyū Sorai (1666).

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