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Charles Henry Allan Bennett
Charles Henry Allan Bennett | |
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 Ordained as a Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya | |
| Personal | |
| Born | 8 December 1872 London, United Kingdom |
| Died | 9 March 1923 (aged 50) |
| Resting place | Unmarked grave buried in Morden Cemetery, South London, England |
| Religion | Buddhism |
| School | Theravada |
| Notable work(s) | The Religion of Burma and Other Papers,[1] & The Wisdom of the Aryas.[2] |
| Monastic name | Ananda Metteyya (also early version: Ananda Maitreya) |
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Charles Henry Allan Bennett (8 December 1872 – 9 March 1923) was an English Buddhist and former member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. He was an early friend and influential teacher of occultist Aleister Crowley.[3][4][5]
Bennett received the name Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya at his ordination as a Buddhist monk and spent years studying and practising Buddhism in the East. He was the second Englishman to be ordained as a Buddhist monk (Bhikkhu) of the Theravāda tradition[6] and was instrumental in introducing Buddhism in England. He established the first Buddhist Mission in the United Kingdom and sought to spread the light of Dhamma to the West. Co-founder of international Buddhist organisations and publications, he was an influential Buddhist advocate of the early 20th century.
- ^ Bennett 1929.
- ^ Bennett 1923.
- ^ Melton 2000, p. 169.
- ^ Kaczynski & Wasserman 2009, Chp. 6 Crowley credited... "his focus on concentration and awareness practices to the influence of his two early mentors, Oscar Eckenstein and Allan Bennett.".
- ^ Crow 2008c, p. 1.
- ^ Batchelor 1994, p. 40.
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