Home›Sources›Encountering the Dharma: Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai, and the Globalization of Buddhist HumanismSourcesEncountering the Dharma: Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai, and the Globalization of Buddhist HumanismCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Encountering the Dharma: Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai, and the Globalization of Buddhist Humanism." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/encountering-the-dharma-daisaku-ikeda-soka-gakkai-and-the-globalization-of-buddhist-humanism.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Encountering the Dharma: Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai, and the Globalization of Buddhist Humanism. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/encountering-the-dharma-daisaku-ikeda-soka-gakkai-and-the-globalization-of-buddhist-humanismCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-encountering-the-dharma-daisaku-ikeda-so, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Encountering the Dharma: Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai, and the Globalization of Buddhist Humanism}, year = {2026}, url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/encountering-the-dharma-daisaku-ikeda-soka-gakkai-and-the-globalization-of-buddhist-humanism}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXRichard Hughes Seager's Encountering the Dharma, published by the University of California Press in 2006, is a scholarly study of Daisaku Ikeda, the Soka Gakkai movement he leads, and its globalization as a lay Buddhist humanist movement. Seager is an established scholar of American and global religion. Its strength is that it is a peer-reviewed academic monograph combining historical and sociological method with access to Soka Gakkai's own materials. Its limit is that it is an outside scholarly account of a living movement whose own self-presentation continues to evolve, so a claim about the movement's current teaching or structure needs a source reflecting its present state alongside this study.FactsCross-Tradition ConnectionsClaims Backed By This Source (105 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1Richard Seager's scholarly study of Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai and the globalization of Buddhist humanism.NotesWell-attestedRichard Seager's scholarly study of Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai and the globalization of Buddhist humanism.CitationAuthorWell-attestedRichard Hughes SeagerPublisherWell-attestedUniversity of California PressPublication YearWell-attested2006Source TypeWell-attestedacademic monographCross-Tradition ConnectionsAssociated WithDaisaku Ikeda, Historical Figures Well-attested This source names Daisaku Ikeda directly: "Press in 2006, is a scholarly study of Daisaku Ikeda, the Soka Gakkai movement he leads, and its globalization as a lay Buddhist humanist movement."Source Encountering the Dharma: Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai, and the Globalization of Buddhist HumanismRichard Hughes Seagertier 1Global, Continents Well-attested This source names Global directly: "Soka Gakkai movement he leads, and its globalization as a lay Buddhist humanist movement."Source Encountering the Dharma: Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai, and the Globalization of Buddhist HumanismRichard Hughes Seagertier 1Soka Gakkai, Denominations Well-attested This source names Soka Gakkai directly: "scholarly study of Daisaku Ikeda, the Soka Gakkai movement he leads, and its globalization as a lay Buddhist humanist movement."Source Encountering the Dharma: Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai, and the Globalization of Buddhist HumanismRichard Hughes Seagertier 1Claims Backed By This Source (105 claims)This source backs 105 claims across the atlas. As facts: 74 well-attested. As cited relationships: 7 holds, 9 connected. Plus 15 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicArticles, 55 claims: 37 well-attested, 9 connected, 9 general references.Historical Figures, 23 claims: 18 well-attested, 2 holds, 3 general references.Beliefs & Restrictions, 15 claims: 12 well-attested, 3 general references.Sources, 10 claims: 7 well-attested, 3 holds.Screen Works, 2 claims: 2 holds.Well-attested74ArticlesA 1991 Split and Contested Wealth Estimates Mark a Global Movement's Later YearsA Mentor and Disciple Bond Becomes a Film Decades LaterA Prisoner Survives to Rebuild What His Mentor FoundedA Second President Is Succeeded by His Own DiscipleA Third President Turns a National Movement into a Global OneAn Educator Founds a Society and Dies in Prison for ItFrom Shakubuku to Dialogue, a Change in Method Not GoalJosei Toda's Wartime Experience and the Doctrine's OriginPracticing Without a Priesthood, the Home Discussion MeetingBeliefs & RestrictionsA lay movement without a priesthoodHuman revolution: inner change as the engine of social changeKosen-rufu: peace through the wide propagation of the teachingHistorical FiguresDaisaku IkedaJosei TodaTsunesaburo MakiguchiSourcesEncountering the Dharma: Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai, and the Globalization of Buddhist HumanismHolds7Historical FiguresDaisaku IkedaScreen WorksThe Human Revolution (Ningen Kakumei, 1973 film)SourcesEncountering the Dharma: Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai, and the Globalization of Buddhist HumanismConnected9ArticlesA 1991 Split and Contested Wealth Estimates Mark a Global Movement's Later YearsA Mentor and Disciple Bond Becomes a Film Decades LaterA Prisoner Survives to Rebuild What His Mentor FoundedA Second President Is Succeeded by His Own DiscipleA Third President Turns a National Movement into a Global OneAn Educator Founds a Society and Dies in Prison for ItFrom Shakubuku to Dialogue, a Change in Method Not GoalJosei Toda's Wartime Experience and the Doctrine's OriginPracticing Without a Priesthood, the Home Discussion MeetingGeneral References15ArticlesA 1991 Split and Contested Wealth Estimates Mark a Global Movement's Later YearsA Mentor and Disciple Bond Becomes a Film Decades LaterA Prisoner Survives to Rebuild What His Mentor FoundedA Second President Is Succeeded by His Own DiscipleA Third President Turns a National Movement into a Global OneAn Educator Founds a Society and Dies in Prison for ItFrom Shakubuku to Dialogue, a Change in Method Not GoalJosei Toda's Wartime Experience and the Doctrine's OriginPracticing Without a Priesthood, the Home Discussion MeetingBeliefs & RestrictionsA lay movement without a priesthoodHuman revolution: inner change as the engine of social changeKosen-rufu: peace through the wide propagation of the teachingHistorical FiguresDaisaku IkedaJosei TodaTsunesaburo MakiguchiComments (0)No comments yet. 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