Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.

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Ikeda's many children's books have been animated into anime. Life and establishment of SGI
Ikeda was born the fifth son of seaweed farmers in Ōta Tokyo. Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and Daisaku Ikeda) (Buenos Aires Emecé 2011)


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^ Watkins explains: "The main three criteria are: 1) The person has to be alive[;] 2) The person has to have made a unique and spiritual contribution on a global scale[;] 3) The person is frequently googled appears in Nielsen Data and is actively talked about throughout the Internet".

Daisaku Ikeda (池田 大作 Ikeda Daisaku? born January 2 1928 Japan) is president of Sōka Gakkai International (SGI) a Nichiren Buddhist lay association which claims 12 million members in 192 countries and territories and founder of several educational cultural and peace research institutions.