Extension of the Empire of Righteousness to Western Lands: Address of Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya, Director of the Buddhasasana Samagama, at the Sixth Annual Convention of the International Buddhist Society, December 17, 1908 (1909)
Selected Essays of Allan Bennett, Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya - (Volume 2 of Allan Bennett, Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya: Biography and Collected Writings) - Elizabeth J. Harris
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Allan Bennett (1872-1923) was one of the first British men to gain higher ordination as a Buddhist monk and one of the seminal figures in the development of Buddhism in the UK.
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This is an address given by Metteyya in Rangoon to the Buddhasāsana Samāgama (the International Buddhist Society) in December 1908, after his mission to Britain. It contains a passionate appeal to his Burmese supporters that they should donate to the cause of Buddhism in the west, as a moral duty. In the disempowering context of British colonialism, he offers his listeners agency in supporting what was happening in Britain.