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Charles Henry Allan Bennett
Ordained as a Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya
Personal
Born
(1872-12-08)8 December 1872
London, United Kingdom
Died
9 March 1923(1923-03-09) (aged 50)
Clapham Junction, London
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)
Occupation
early life: analytical chemist & occultist.
later life: buddhist monk & buddhist; writer, teacher, advocate.
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 & Metteyya 1929.
^Bennett & Metteyya 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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