Ananda Metteyya/Allan Bennett (1872–1923)
Allan Bennett was one of the first British people to be ordained as a Buddhist monk (bhikkhu) in Asia, taking the name Ananda Metteyya. He was a liminal figure who stretched across different nineteenth and early twentieth-century contexts. He was well-educated but experienced poverty and chronic ill...
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St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
2024-03-01
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| Online Access: | https://www.saet.ac.uk/Buddhism/AnandaMetteyyaAllanBennett |