.


  • Equinox
    • Equinox Publishing Home
    • About Equinox
    • People at Equinox
    • Terms and Conditions
    • Privacy Statement
    • FAQ’s
  • Subjects
    • Archaeology & History
    • Linguistics & Communication
    • Popular Music
    • Religion & Philosophy
  • Journals
    • Journals Home Page
      • Archaeology and History Journals
      • Linguistics Journals
      • Popular Music Journals
      • Religious Studies Journals
    • Publishing For Societies
    • Librarians & Subscription Agents
    • Electronic Journal Packages
    • For Contributors
    • Open Access and Copyright Policy
    • Personal Subscriptions
    • Article Downloads
    • Back Issues
    • Pricelist
  • Books
    • Book Home Page
    • Forthcoming Books
    • Published Books
    • Series
      • Advances in CALL Research and Practice
      • Advances in Optimality Theory
      • Advances in the Cognitive Science of Religion
      • Allan Bennett, Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya: Biography and Collected Writings
      • Applied Phonology and Pronunciation Teaching
      • British Council Monographs on Modern Language Testing
      • Collected Works of Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen
      • Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan
      • Communication Disorders & Clinical Linguistics
      • Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts
      • Comparative Islamic Studies
      • Contemporary and Historical Paganism
      • Culture on the Edge
      • Discourses in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Studies
      • Discussions in Functional Approaches to Language
      • Eastern Buddhist Voices
      • Equinox English Linguistics and ELT
      • Equinox Textbooks and Surveys in Linguistics
      • Frameworks for Writing
      • Functional Linguistics
      • Genre, Music and Sound
      • Global Philosophy
      • Icons of Pop Music
      • J.R. Collis Publications
      • Key Concepts in Systemic Functional Linguistics
      • Middle Way Philosophy
      • Monographs in Arabic and Islamic Studies
      • Monographs in Islamic Archaeology
      • Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology
      • Music Industry Studies
      • NAASR Working Papers
      • New Directions in Anthropological Archaeology
      • Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies Monographs
      • Popular Music History
      • Pragmatic Interfaces
      • Reflective Practice in Language Education
      • Religion and the Senses
      • Religion in 5 Minutes
      • Southover Press
      • Studies in Ancient Religion and Culture
      • Studies in Applied Linguistics
      • Studies in Communication in Organisations and Professions
      • Studies in Egyptology and the Ancient Near East
      • Studies in Phonetics and Phonology
      • Studies in Popular Music
      • Studies in the Archaeology of Medieval Europe
      • Text and Social Context
      • The Early Settlement of Northern Europe
      • The Study of Religion in a Global Context
      • Themes in Qur’anic Studies
      • Transcultural Music Studies
      • Working with Culture on the Edge
      • Worlds of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean
    • For Authors
    • E-Books
    • Textbooks
    • Book Trade
  • Resources
    • Events
    • Rights & Permissions
    • Advertisers & Media
  • Search
  • eBooks
Equinox Publishing
Books and Journals in Humanities, Social Science and Performing Arts
RSSTwitterFacebookLinkedInGoogle+

Selected Essays of Allan Bennett, Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya

(Volume 2 of Allan Bennett, Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya: Biography and Collected Writings)

Edited by
John L. Crow [+–]
Florida State University
John L. Crow holds a Ph.D. in American religious history from Florida State University, where he is an instructional design faculty member assisting other faculty in course design and use of education technology.
Elizabeth J. Harris [+–]
University of Birmingham
Elizabeth Harris is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow within the Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion, University of Birmingham, UK. Before this, she was an Associate Professor at Liverpool Hope University. She specializes in Buddhist Studies and inter-faith studies, and has published widely in both disciplines. Her publications include: What Buddhists Believe (Oneworld, 1998): Theravada Buddhism and the British Encounter: Religious, missionary and colonial experience in nineteenth century Sri Lanka (Routledge, 2006): Buddhism for a Violent World: A Christian Reflection (Epworth, 2010/now published by SCM).

Contributing Author
Allan Bennett [+–]
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.

This is the first edited, annotated collection of the writings of Allan Bennett, 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. Bennett’s view of Buddhism reflects the intellectual history of his day and the debates that were happening between different religious groups in late Victorian and early Edwardian imperial Britain. His work represents some of the first writings by English converts to Buddhism, efforts which mobilized British Buddhists and sympathizers. Controversy has surrounded his life, particularly in western Buddhist circles, because of his early involvement with the occult.

His major publications consist of two volumes. The first recorded a series of talks he gave in London in 1917-1918, published just two months before he died, The Wisdom of the Aryas. The second was published posthumously, The Religion of Burma and Other Papers. Both of these are included in this volume as well as excerpts from his esoteric notebooks, essays published in the journal he established Buddhism – An Illustrated Quarterly Review, the prospectus of the international Buddhist society he founded Buddhasāsana Samāgama, and excerpts from his letters and lectures as well as other publications.

Related Interest/Companion Volume The Life of Allan Bennett, Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya
(Volume 1 of Allan Bennett, Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya: Biography and Collected Writings)”>

Table of Contents

Introduction

Introduction
Elizabeth J. Harris,John L. Crow
University of Birmingham
Elizabeth Harris is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow within the Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion, University of Birmingham, UK. Before this, she was an Associate Professor at Liverpool Hope University. She specializes in Buddhist Studies and inter-faith studies, and has published widely in both disciplines. Her publications include: What Buddhists Believe (Oneworld, 1998): Theravada Buddhism and the British Encounter: Religious, missionary and colonial experience in nineteenth century Sri Lanka (Routledge, 2006): Buddhism for a Violent World: A Christian Reflection (Epworth, 2010/now published by SCM).

Florida State University
John L. Crow holds a Ph.D. in American religious history from Florida State University, where he is an instructional design faculty member assisting other faculty in course design and use of education technology.

Chapter 1

Excerpts from Allan Bennett’s Letters and Esoteric Notebooks (1893-1900)
Allan Bennett
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.

Chapter 2

The Taphthartharath Ritual (1911)
Allan Bennett
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.

Chapter 3

A Note on Genesis (1909)
Allan Bennett
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.

Chapter 4

The Four Noble Truths (1901)
Allan Bennett
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.

Chapter 5

The Foundation of the Sangha of the West Being an Account of the Upasampada Ordination of Bhikkhu Ananda Maitriya (1902)
Allan Bennett
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.

Chapter 6

On he Culture of Mind (1902)
Allan Bennett
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.

Chapter 7

Animism and Law (1902)
Allan Bennett
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.

Chapter 8

Prospectus of the Buddhasāsana Samāgama or the International Buddhist Society (1904)
Allan Bennett
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.

Chapter 9

Essays Published in Buddhism – An Illustrated Quarterly Review (1903-1908)
Allan Bennett
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.

Chapter 10

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)
Allan Bennett
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.

Chapter 11

The Religion of Burma (1910)
Allan Bennett
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.

Chapter 12

On Devotion in Buddhism (1910)
Allan Bennett
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.

Chapter 13

Right Understanding (1913)
Allan Bennett
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.

Chapter 14

The Wisdom or the Aryas (1923)
Allan Bennett
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.

Chapter 15

Buddhism: A Religion of Compassion (1921)
Allan Bennett
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.

Chapter 16

Buddhism and the Western World (1921)
Allan Bennett
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.

Chapter 17

Doctrine of the Aryas (1921)
Allan Bennett
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.

Chapter 18

Excerpts from the Buddhist Correspondence of Allan Bennett/Ananda Metteyya
Allan Bennett
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.

ISBN-13 (Hardback)
9781781798003
Price (Hardback)
£75.00 / $100.00
ISBN (eBook)
9781781798010
Price (eBook)
Individual
£75.00 / $100.00
Institutional
£75.00 / $100.00
Publication
01/10/2024
Pages
480
Size
234 x 156mm
Readership
scholars

Related Journal

Related Interest

    • Search Equinox

    • Subjects

      • Archaeology & History
        • Food History
        • Journals
      • Linguistics & Communication
        • Spanish & Arabic
        • Writing & Composition
        • Journals
      • Popular Music
        • Jazz
        • Journals
      • Religion & Philosophy
        • Buddhist Studies
        • Islamic Studies
        • Journals
    • Tweets by @EQUINOXPUB
    We may use cookies to collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information for our internal use. Find out more.