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A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and further, will enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.

~Daisaku Ikeda

Daisaku Ikeda is the President of Soka Gakkai International (SGI), a lay Buddhist organization that fosters world peace, culture, and education through Nichiren Daishonin’s Buddhism.  There are currently 12 million SGI members in over 190 countries.  As a Buddhist thinker and educator, Daisaku Ikeda has met and dialogued with many prominent educators, politicians, and humanistic thinkers, such as Nelson Mandela, Arnold Toynbee, Mikhail Gorbachev, Rosa Parks, Linus Pauling, to name a few. 

For his movements to promote world peace, Daisaku Ikeda has received numerous humanitarian awards and has received over 200 honorary doctorate degrees from universities around the world.  He is currently 78 years old and resides in Japan.

For more information on President Daisaku Ikeda and the SGI, visit www.sgi.org