Ānanda Metteyya
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Ānanda Metteyya ; The name given to Charles Henry Allan Bennett in 1902 when he was ordained in Akyab, Burma. as a Bhikkhu. In 1908 he led a Mission to England to establish Buddhism as a living religion in the British Isles. The Buddhist Society of Great Britain and Ireland (q.v.) was founded to assist him on arrival. A.M. returned to Burma after six months, but in 1914 was forced to return to England by ill-health. Author of The Wisdom of the Aryas. He died in March, 1923. See Humphreys, Sixty Years of Buddhism in England.
