Ikeda, Daisaku

Autor: Ikeda, Daisaku
Rok: 1928-2023
Oblast působnosti: filozofové, pedagogové, spisovatelé

Biogr./Hist. údaje: Japonský budhistický filosof, pedagog a spisovatel, zakladatel mezinárodní mírové organizace.
Zdroj: Autoritní databáze Národní knihovny ČR

Daisaku Ikeda (池田 大作, Ikeda Daisaku, born January 2, 1928, Japan) is the spiritual leader, author, and former president of the Nichiren Buddhist Soka Gakkai, the largest of Japan's new religious movements, and also one of the most controversial. Ikeda is also the founding president of the movement's international offshoot, Soka Gakkai International (SGI), which, according to its own numbers, is the world's largest Buddhist lay organization with approximately 12 million practitioners in 192 countries and regions. Some of the books he has authored, especially "The Human Revolution" (1965) have gained canonical status within the movement. In 1996, Los Angeles Times writer Teresa Watanabe described Ikeda as a "puzzle of conflicting perceptions," ranging from "a democrat," "a man of deep learning" and "an inspired teacher," to "a despot," "a threat to democracy" and "Japan's most powerful man." Watanabe reported that Japanese "tabloid coverage has affected his public image and blurred the lines between suspicion and fact, imagination and reality."