The First Buddhist Mission to the West: Charles Pfoundes and the London Buddhist mission of 1889 - 1892

This article challenges two general assumptions shared by scholars of Western Buddhism: (1) that the earliest Buddhist missions to the West were those established in California from 1899 onwards; and (2) that Ananda Metteyya’s (Allan Bennett’s) London mission of 1908 was the first Buddhist mission t...

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Main Author: Brian, Bocking (Author)
Contributors: Cox, Laurence 1969- (Other) ; Yoshinaga, Shin'ichi 1957- (Other)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] [2014]
In: Diskus
Year: 2014, Volume: 16, Issue: 3, Pages: 1-33
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