Early Western Lay Buddhists in Colonial Asia: John Bowles Daly and the Buddhist Theosophical Society of Ceylon

The first westerners recorded as becoming lay Buddhists on Asian terms were members of the Buddhist Theosophical Society in Ceylon who took pansil (refuges and precepts) between 1880 to 1907 or later, tied to their work with the BTS’ modernising Buddhist schools. This article uses the life of Dr Joh...

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Authors: Cox, Laurence 1969- (Author) ; Sirisena, Mihirini (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] 2016
In: Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions
Year: 2016, Volume: 3, Pages: 108-139
Further subjects:B Theosophy
B Buddhist Modernism
B Education
B Ceylon
B Buddhist Theosophical Society
B John Bowles Daly
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