The Ikeda Center is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Learn more about us

Ceasar McDowell and Ved Nanda, 2012 Ikeda Forum, Ikeda Center, interdependence

Ceasar McDowell and Ved Nanda spoke at the 2012 Ikeda Forum on interdependence. Read more

The 2011 Ikeda Forum focused on the topic, "Cultivating the Greater Self." Read more

You can read feature articles on all Ikeda Center events at our Themes page. Read more

Emi Inaba performed with Eriel Huang at our 20th Anniversary celebration in 2013. Read more

You can view image galleries in our Photos & Videos section. View galleries

A steadfast commitment to dialogue is first among our core convictions. Read more

Featured Video

Remembering Vincent Harding. Last September, while attending our 20th Anniversary celebration, Dr. Harding sat down for a video conversation in which he offered extraordinary reflections on love and mortality. His sense of gratitude is moving, and a good measure of the man.

Welcome

The Ikeda Center is an institute for peace, learning, and dialogue located in Cambridge, Mass. Since 1993, we have been engaging diverse scholars, activists, and social innovators in the search for the ideas and solutions that will assist in the peaceful evolution of humanity.
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About Daisaku Ikeda

Daisaku Ikeda, founder of the Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue, is a Buddhist thinker and leader, peace builder, prolific writer and poet, educator, and proponent and practitioner of wide-ranging dialogue.
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Timeline

Go here to view a detailed timeline of Center activities and events from our founding in 1993 through 2012.
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Core Convictions

Seven core convictions drive our work. The first is that dialogue and mutual understanding are inseparable and needed now more then ever.
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20th Anniversary

During 2013, we celebrated our twentieth year as a peace and dialogue institute. It's 2014 now, but this special section still serves as a great intro to our work. It gathers various resources, including messages from our founder, essays on our core convictions, and interviews on our history.
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What's New?

Save the Date!

Please join us Saturday September 27th for the 11th Annual Ikeda Forum for Intercultural Dialogue: "A Conversation on the Dignity of Life." Click above for more details.

Wider & Ikeda: Sublime Motivations

In The Art of True Relations, co-author Sarah Wider paraphrased Mary Moody Emerson, saying that "sublime motivation yields sublime character." Wider also reminded us that "worth is determined not by class, rank, or wealth but by the qualities that compose an individual’s motivation." Click to read the full chapter.

To Our Visitors

The Center is undergoing a major renovation this summer. Therefore, we will be unable to offer tours of the building during this time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Yokota On Our Founding

In our newest spotlight interview, Masao Yokota reflects on the ideas and values that shaped our early years as a center devoted to dialogue and peacebuilding.

The Women of Transcendentalism

In this 2014 video, Dr. Sarah Wider talks about the unique contributions of women such as Margaret Fuller and Elizabeth Palmer Peabody to the American Renaissance.

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