That is why it is vital to forge a growing network that brings people of goodwill and conscience together. To put into practice the educational philosophy of his predecessors, Mr.
Makiguchi and Mr. President Ikeda has also founded a number of independent, nonprofit research institutes that promote peace through cross-cultural, interdisciplinary collaboration, including the Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue and the Toda Peace Institute. President Ikeda is a strong proponent of dialogue as the foundation of peace.
Since the s, he has pursued dialogue with individuals from diverse backgrounds—prominent figures from around the world in the humanities, politics, faith traditions, culture, education and various academic fields—to discover common ground and identify ways of tackling the complex problems facing humanity. Over 80 of these dialogues have been published in book form.
Article 1 of 11 See the Issue ». Treasuring the Person Right in Front of Me. It was also during these overseas trips that he began planning the foundation of a series of research and other institutions dedicated to academic and cultural exchange and peace research.
The establishment of these schools, which are open to all students and offer no religious instruction, was the first major step in an ongoing endeavor to develop a humanistic educational system, one that Ikeda has described as the culminating undertaking of his life. Nothing is more cruel. Nothing is more pitiful than a nation being swept along by fools.
At the time, China was still perceived as an enemy nation by many within Japan and was isolated within the international community.
Ikeda also began to engage in dialogue with political figures during the s. This was a time of deep tensions between the superpowers, with the threat of nuclear annihilation hanging over humanity. He has met and exchanged views with representatives of cultural, political, educational and artistic fields from around the world.
Many of these meetings have led to the publication of collaborative dialogues seeking common ground on a diverse range of topics—history, economics, peace studies, astronomy and medicine, to name a few.
By Soka Gakkai proclaimed that it had attained its target of , families months earlier than expected. Though continuing to maintain the exclusivism of the movement, Ikeda set out to broaden the appeal of Soka Gakkai through better public relations and tempered its open aggressiveness, while still maintaining its goal of kosen-rufu, worldwide-dissemination.
After accusations of scandal in , he turned the movement's attention to the formation of educational and cultural organizations, founding the Min-on Concert Association and the Oriental Institute of Academic Research in and the Fuji Art Museum in He also shifted its emphasis to international affairs and the peace movement. In the tradition of Nichiren's teaching of obutsumyogo, "agreement in purpose of government and Buddhism," on November 17, , Ikeda founded the Komeito, "Clean Government Party," based on the previous success of Soka Gakkai-supported candidates in Japanese elections.
Though officially an independent party, the two work closely together. In May Ikeda announced its separation from Soka Gakkai in response to a public scandal investigation by the Japanese Diet. At the end of Soka Gakkai and Komeito had been accused of the suppression of the publication of a series of books criticizing the movement.
Since then, however, Soka Gakkai-Komeito unity has, in effect, been restored. Komeito remains a minority party, but it has been successful in large metropolitan districts, taking a liberal, neutralist, pacifist, and socialist stance in Japanese politics.
In his view, global peace relies ultimatelyon a self-directed transformation within the life of the individual, rather than on societal or structural reforms alone.
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