All Manipur Buddhist Association (AMBA) is a

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organization in

Manipur Manipur () ( mni, Kangleipak) is a state in Northeast India, with the city of Imphal as its capital. It is bounded by the Indian states of Nagaland to the north, Mizoram to the south and Assam to the west. It also borders two regions of Myanm ...

, India. It was founded on the full moon day of the month of Meraa (October) in 1972 and was registered under section 20 of the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860 in 1982. The first Vishakha Puja (

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) was performed in 1984 at Phayjaa Laytong in

Imphal Imphal ( Meitei pronunciation: /im.pʰal/; English pronunciation: ) is the capital city of the Indian state of Manipur. The metropolitan centre of the city contains the ruins of Kangla Palace (also known as Kangla Fort), the royal seat of the fo ...

East, with Ven. Akshyananda of Tripura as the presiding monk. For the first time in

, a Buddhist monastery was established at

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, a town in Manipur bordering

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, with the help of Ven. Akshyananda sometime in 1984–85. The present pagoda there was erected with the generous donation of Dr. Dey and his family in 1988.

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