Add to ORKGThe 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 John Bowles Daly as a lens to explore these "conversions" and the BTS' educational turn. Daly (c. 1844 - c. 1916), an Irish writer and ex-Anglican curate, played an important role in Buddhist schooling in Ceylon in the early 1890s. The article discusses why western BTS members took pansil and how this was understood, as well as the lack of western bhikkhu (monk) ordinations in Ceylon. The new layrun schools slowly became established as a suitable ob...
When one thinks of religion in Ireland, Christian, Celtic, and perhaps even Norman images are immedi...
Recent research on the life of U Dhammaloka and other early western Buddhists in Asia has interesti...
The period from the later nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth centuries—roughly between t...
The first westerners recorded as becoming lay Buddhists on Asian terms were members of the Buddhist ...
The first westerners recorded as becoming lay Buddhists on Asian terms were members of the Buddhist ...
The first westerners recorded as becoming lay Buddhists on Asian terms were members of the Buddhist ...
The article provides an introduction to the special issue of Contemporary Buddhism entitled ‘U Dhamm...
The article provides an introduction to the special issue of Contemporary Buddhism entitled ‘U Dhamm...
The article provides an introduction to the special issue of Contemporary Buddhism entitled ‘U Dhamm...
The article provides an introduction to the special issue of Contemporary Buddhism entitled ‘U Dhamm...
This article uses a world-systems perspective to analyse the development of Buddhism in Ireland, in ...
This article explores some important aspects of U Dhammaloka's Buddhism, drawing in particular on th...
The first European members of the bhikkhu sangha have normally been identified as Gordon Douglas / A...
Shortly after Mme Blavatsky’s death in May 1891, a London correspondent for the New York Sun intervi...
Ireland lies on the margins of the Buddhist world, far from its homeland in northern India and Nepal...
When one thinks of religion in Ireland, Christian, Celtic, and perhaps even Norman images are immedi...
Recent research on the life of U Dhammaloka and other early western Buddhists in Asia has interesti...
The period from the later nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth centuries—roughly between t...
The first westerners recorded as becoming lay Buddhists on Asian terms were members of the Buddhist ...
The first westerners recorded as becoming lay Buddhists on Asian terms were members of the Buddhist ...
The first westerners recorded as becoming lay Buddhists on Asian terms were members of the Buddhist ...
The article provides an introduction to the special issue of Contemporary Buddhism entitled ‘U Dhamm...
The article provides an introduction to the special issue of Contemporary Buddhism entitled ‘U Dhamm...
The article provides an introduction to the special issue of Contemporary Buddhism entitled ‘U Dhamm...
The article provides an introduction to the special issue of Contemporary Buddhism entitled ‘U Dhamm...
This article uses a world-systems perspective to analyse the development of Buddhism in Ireland, in ...
This article explores some important aspects of U Dhammaloka's Buddhism, drawing in particular on th...
The first European members of the bhikkhu sangha have normally been identified as Gordon Douglas / A...
Shortly after Mme Blavatsky’s death in May 1891, a London correspondent for the New York Sun intervi...
Ireland lies on the margins of the Buddhist world, far from its homeland in northern India and Nepal...
When one thinks of religion in Ireland, Christian, Celtic, and perhaps even Norman images are immedi...
Recent research on the life of U Dhammaloka and other early western Buddhists in Asia has interesti...
The period from the later nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth centuries—roughly between t...