1. Elizabeth Harris is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow within the Edward 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). 2. 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. 3. 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
摘要
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 and mobilized both British Buddhists and sympathizers. Controversy has surrounded his life, particularly in western Buddhist circles, because of his early involvement with the occult. His writings included two published 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 (Buddhasāsana Samāgama) he founded, and excerpts from his letters and lectures as well as other publications.
目次
Introduction Chapter 1: Excerpts from Allan Bennett’s Letters and Esoteric Notebooks (1893-1900) Chapter 2: The Ritual for the Evocation Unto Visible Appearance of The Great Spirit Taphthartharath (1911) Chapter 3: A Note on Genesis (1909) Chapter 4: The Four Noble Truths (1901) Chapter 5: On The Culture of Mind (Edited and reprinted as ‘Training the Mind’ by Aleister Crowley) (1902) Chapter 6: Animism and Law (1902) Chapter 7: The Foundation of the Sangha of the West Being an Account of the Upasampada Ordination of Bhikkhu Ananda Maitriya (1902) Chapter 8: Revised Prospectus of the Buddhasāsana Samāgama or the International Buddhist Society (1903) Chapter 9: The Faith of the Future or The Law of Righteousness (1903) Chapter 10: In the Shadow of Shwe Dagon (1903-1904) Chapter 11: Propaganda (1908) Chapter 12: Obituary: Col. H.S Olcott (1908) Chapter 13: The Word of the Buddha [poem] (1908) Chapter 14: 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) Chapter 15: Devotion in Buddhism (1909) Chapter 16: The Religion of Burma (1910) Chapter 17: Right Understanding (1913) Chapter 18: The Wisdom of the Aryas (given as lectures in 1919-1920, published in 1923) Chapter 19: Buddhism: A Religion of Compassion (1921) Chapter 20: Buddhism and the Western World (1921) Chapter 21: The Doctrine of the Aryas (1921) Chapter 22: Excerpts from the Buddhist Correspondence of Ananda Metteyya
