Irish-born Buddhist monk of the Asian Buddhist revival
This article is about an Irish-born migrant worker turned Buddhist monk. For the Nepalese Buddhist monk who worked to revive Theravada Buddhism, see Dhammalok Mahasthavir.
In this Burmese name, U is an honorific, not a given name.
U
Dhammaloka
ဦးဓမ္မလောက
Dhammaloka in 1902 aged about 50.
Personal
Born
Laurence Carroll
1856
Booterstown, Ireland
Died
1914 (1915) (aged 58)
Unknown
Religion
Buddhism
School
Theravada
Dharma names
Dhammaloka
U Dhammaloka (Burmese: ဦးဓမ္မလောက; 1856–1914) was an Irish-born migrant worker[1] turned Buddhist monk, strong critic of Christian missionaries, and temperance campaigner who took an active role in the Asian Buddhist revival around the turn of the twentieth century.
Dhammaloka was ordained in Burma prior to 1900, making him one of the earliest attested Western Buddhist monks in modern times. He was a celebrity preacher, vigorous polemicist and prolific editor in Burma and Singapore between 1900 and his conviction for sedition and appeal in 1910–1911. Drawing on Western atheist writings, he publicly challenged the role of Christian missionaries, and resisted attempts by the colonial government to charge him for sedition.
Buddhist Tract Society stationery.
^O'Connell, Brian (5 July 2011). "Putting Faith in a Broader Vision of Religion". The Irish Times.
UDhammaloka (Burmese: ဦးဓမ္မလောက; 1856–1914) was an Irish-born migrant worker turned Buddhist monk, strong critic of Christian missionaries, and temperance...
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as the Irish ex-hobo UDhammaloka and intellectuals such as Bhikkhu Asoka (H. Gordon Douglas), and Ananda Metteyya. UDhammaloka became a popular traveling...
as well as troops posted at the pagoda openly flouted the tradition. UDhammaloka publicly confronted a police officer over wearing shoes at the pagoda...
Nowhere W. H. Davies, Welsh poet who also lived as a tramp Jack Dempsey UDhammaloka Loren Eiseley Woody Guthrie, American folk musician James Eads How, wealthy...
Purification (Visuddhimagga) by Bhadantacariya Buddhaghosa Guide through the Visuddhimagga by U Dhammaratana Vimuttimagga and Visuddhimagga by P. V. Bapat...
Buddhist population in Ireland is 9,358 (0.2%). Irish Buddhists such as UDhammaloka are recorded from the late nineteenth century on, with numbers growing...
throughout Burma Proper. Between 1900 and 1911 the "Irish Buddhist" UDhammaloka publicly challenged Christianity and imperial power, leading to two trials...
the post-independence era include U Narada, Mahasi Sayadaw, Sayadaw U Pandita, Nyanaponika Thera, Webu Sayadaw, U Ba Khin and his student S.N. Goenka...
Burma Proper.[citation needed] Between 1900 – 1911 the "Irish Buddhist" UDhammaloka challenged Christianity and British rule on religious grounds. A new...
Pali–English Dictionary. Chipstead: Pali Text Society. Retrieved 2008-05-08 from "U. Chicago" at http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/pali/. Thanissaro Bhikkhu...
(1918–1995) Nan Huai-Chin (1918–2012) European John Crook (1930–2011) UDhammaloka (1856?–1914?) John Garrie (1923–1998) Muhō Noelke (born 1968) Henry Shukman...
Tombstone". George Croghan, Irish born colonial American fur trapper UDhammaloka (?Laurence Carroll), Buddhist monk and anti-missionary agitator in Burma...
Greenwood History of Modern Nations Series. "Background Note: Thailand". U.S. Department of State. July 2009. Archived from the original on 29 December...
Buddhism. von Hinüber, Oskar (2000), A handbook of Pāli literature, Berlin [u.a.]: de Gruyter, ISBN 9783110167382 According to Hinüber (2000), p. 83, ¶173...
west. The 19th century also saw the first western monastics such as UDhammaloka, Ananda Metteyya and the German Nyānatiloka Thera (1878–1956). Another...
217, Buddhist Publication Society, Kandy, Sri Lanka, 3rd ed. 2008. Ko Lay, U. (2003), Guide to Tipiṭaka, Selangor, Malaysia: Burma Piṭaka Association....
China, with two Jade Buddha statues imported from Burma. 1884 Irish-born UDhammaloka ordained in Burma; first named but not first known western bhikkhu. 1893...
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