R.J. Jackson
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R.J. Jackson ; First English Buddhist to declare himself as such, and to proclaim the Dhamma in public in England.
Lectured from a box in Regent’s Park in 1905.
Original Member of the Buddhist Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1907.
Became a self-taught scholar on Theravāda and Indian philosophy, and wrote widely in Bst. journals.
Author of India’s Quest for Reality (1938). See ‘Development of Buddhism in England’ in B.S.M. Died 1967.]