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  • Exterior shot of Founders Hall from across Peace Lake

    Open new pathways to our collective future through intrepid scholarship! Embrace the world with dialogue inspired by courage!

    Founder's Message — Welcome to the Undergraduate Class of 2027 and the 10th Class of the Master’s Program in Educational Leadership and Societal Change
    August 8, 2023
  • Aerial Drone image of ºÚÁÏÉçÇø of America's campus during sunset with a pink and purple sky

    Immeasurable potential lies dormant within the great earth of every individual’s sublime life.

    Founder's Message - 19th Commencement Ceremony
    Message from SUA Founder Daisaku Ikeda to the Class of 2023
  • Aerial View of Founder's Hall and Peace Lake with the sun beaming on the horizon

    What is needed now more than ever is to forge the kind of solidarity that transcends every difference, from nation-states and ethnicities to thought and religion, and to create a sustainable global society in which the dignity of all people is secured.

    Founder's Message — Welcome to the Undergraduate Class of 2026 and the Ninth Class of the Master’s Program in Educational Leadership and Societal Change
    August 9, 2022
  • Aerial view of SUA campus

    Now more than ever, I ask you to manifest the true value of Soka’s global citizens, doing so in good cheer with wisdom and resilience, to brighten our world in this century from the stage of your respective mission in life.

    Founder's Message - 18th Commencement Ceremony
    Message from SUA Founder Daisaku Ikeda to the Class of 2022
  • Exterior of Founders Hall

    The time that each of you spend on this campus, cheerfully learning to forge the spirit of indomitability with your fellow students day after day—that is from whence a new world will emerge in this century, to nurture humanity’s capacity to create lasting value.

    Founder's Message — Welcome to the Undergraduate Class of 2025 and the Eighth Class of the Master’s Program in Educational Leadership and Societal Change
    August 10, 2021
  • Daisaku Ikeda looks at large photo of the plans for the SUA Aliso Viejo campus

    My beloved graduates, I envision firmly clasping every one of your hands, to send you off with this exhortation: May you brighten civilization in the 21st century like the dawn beaming with hope!

    Founder's Message - 17th Commencement Ceremony
    Message from SUA Founder Daisaku Ikeda to the Class of 2021
  • Looking down at Soka's Peace Lake at dusk

    My beloved graduates of the Classes of 2020, you are the hope and jewel of inestimable value
    for all humankind. I will always be watching over you, praying for your health and success,
    that your lives resound with songs of triumph.

    Founder's Message to the Class of 2020
    A Message from SUA Founder Daisaku Ikeda
  • Daisaku Ikeda looks at large photo of the plans for the SUA Aliso Viejo campus

    This day marks the time in which you — members of the Class of 2019 — take wing as youthful leaders of global citizenry who will contribute to the peace and happiness of humankind.

    Founder's Message - 15th Commencement Ceremony
    Aliso Viejo, California | May 24, 2019
  • ºÚÁÏÉçÇø of America - from above

    My happiness lies in all of you becoming happy. My victory is for each of you to triumph.

    Founder's Message - 14th Commencement Ceremony
    Aliso Viejo, California | May 25, 2018
  • Founders Hall and Peace Lake calm and blue

    Cast the light of hope even farther by working with people and organizations that encourage hope.

    Founder's Message - 13th Commencement Ceremony
    Aliso Viejo, California | May 26, 2017
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