This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
Daisaku Ikeda's decades as Soka Gakkai's third president were not without dispute. In 1991 Soka Gakkai split from the Nichiren Shoshu priesthood, the traditional Buddhist clergy the lay organization had long been affiliated with, a documented institutional rupture rather than a gradual drifting apart, separating the movement Ikeda led from the priesthood that had ordained the tradition it practiced.
Outside estimates of the movement's wealth, built up over decades of growth into a worldwide organization, have run into the billions of dollars, figures that Soka Gakkai itself contests rather than accepts as accurate. That the same organization whose founder died in wartime poverty and imprisonment came, under its third president, to be the subject of billion dollar wealth estimates it disputes marks the scale of the dispute itself as a documented feature of the movement's later history rather than a settled fact either side agrees on.
Ikeda died in 2023, having led Soka Gakkai for more than six decades through both the 1991 priesthood split and the wealth estimates that remained unresolved at his death, a tenure whose institutional disputes are recorded alongside its documented expansion rather than separately from it.