Bengal Buddhist Association ( bn, বৌদ্ধ ধর্মাঙ্কুর সভা, Bôuddhô Dhôrmāṅkurô Sôbhā) is a Buddhist organisation based in

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

History

This institution was established by Kṛpāśaraṇa Mahāsthabira on 5 October 1892. It was influenced by modernist South Asian Buddhist currents such as Sri Lankan

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as well as Western Oriental scholarship and spiritual movements like

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. The aim of the organisation was to revive, practice and propagate the principles of

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and nurture

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. In 1903, Dharmankur Buddhist Temple was set up in Bow Barracks in Kolkata by the association. In 1908 their journal ''Jagajjyoti'' was first published.

References

{{Authority control Religious organizations established in 1892 1892 establishments in India Buddhist organisations based in India Buddhism in India Buddhist communities of India