Honorary doctorate awarded to Dr Ikeda

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, September  23 

Soka Gakkai International president Daisaku Ikeda, was today awarded honorary doctorate degree from Manav Rachna (MR) University for his contribution towards global peace and building a humane society.

The award was presented in absentia to Minoru Harada, president of the Soka Gakai, at a function organised here today. “The ultimate goal of education is happiness and growth of each individual. Wisdom, creative ingenuity and relentless efforts exerted in the field of education has the power to draw the outlines of a new future for humanity and our planet, beyond all limitations,” he said.

President of MR Institutions Prashant Bhalla talking about Dr Ikeda’s initiatives said his institutions had a close tryst with some of his profound philosophies. 

Bharat Soka Gakkai chairperson Vishesh Gupta said, “In one of his essays titled ‘Why Education’, Dr Ikeda says, ‘I consider education to be the culminating undertaking of my life. That is because the victory of education means the victory of the people.”