Buddhist Society
The Buddhist Society (Buddhist Society) is a Buddhist organization based in London. It was founded in 1924 by Christmas Humphreys Lodge of the Theosophical Society Adyar ( Adyar -TG) and 1926 independent.
History
Creation and theosophical embossing
By 1920, Christmas Humphreys visited the College Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Because of his interest in Theosophy and Buddhism, he joined this time the Cambridge Lodge of the Theosophical Society Adyar in ( Adyar -TG), where he rose to become president of the lodge. In 1922, he met his future wife Aileen Faulkner know which shared the tendency to Theosophy and Buddhism with him. With some like-minded Humphreys and Faulkner called in April 1923, a study group within the Cambridge Lodge in life - for the common well in this subject. On November 19, 1924 it became its own theosophical lodge, the official Buddhist Lodge of the Theosophical Society (Buddhist Lodge of the Theosophical Society ), headquartered in London.
This Buddhist Lodge under the umbrella of Adyar -TG was conducted by Humphreys as president. The goal was:
- To study the fundamental principles of Buddhism in the light of Theosophy, distribute and strive to live this.
The doctrine of Theosophy included both Buddhist thought also extracts a number of other Eastern religions and philosophies as well as parts of the Western Mystery Tradition. Humphreys Lodge was exclusively concerned with the Buddhist proportion of Theosophy and Buddhism as a whole and came so soon in conflict with the Theosophists, who had other preferences. In 1926 it came to crash the box separated from the Adyar -TG and became independent. Furthermore, under the presidency Humphreys called the now independent organization Buddhist Lodge, the words " of the Theosophical Society " So you just left out.
Buddhist Society
From 1926 to 1943, the name of Buddhist Lodge, then followed by a name change on Buddhist Society, this name still exists today. Today's destination is:
- To make the principles of the main Buddhist schools and traditions known and to publish and encourage the study and the application of these principles.
Its activities cover the three main directions Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana and Zen.
Since autumn 1925, a bulletin was issued, from the spring of 1926 a journal called Buddhism in England and from 1943 The Middle Way. As the editor himself operated for a time, among other things Alan Watts.
The Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatsho acts since 1961 as a protector of the Buddhist Society.
It is noteworthy that the Theosophical coining the founder and president of Christmas Humphreys as well as the past also the beginnings of the organization in the website of the Buddhist Society with no word mentioned.