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The London Buddhist Vihara was founded in 1926 by Anagarika Dharmapala. [2] One of the temple's main benefactors during its early days was Mary Foster, who financed ‘Foster House’ in Ealing. [3] This was the first Sri Lankan Buddhist temple established outside Asia and was named the London Buddhist Vihara in 1926.
Hailing from Bogoda, a village in the Kurunegala District, Ven Seelawimala Nayaka Thera was the son of devout Buddhist parents.He entered the order at the age of 14 years under the tutorship of Ven Balalle Seelaratana Nayaka Thera (chief incumbent of Palagala Purana Vihara in Polgahawela and the chief Adhikarana Sangha Nayaka of Dambadeni-Harispattuwa.
Jamyang London Buddhist Centre (FPMT/Tibetan) Kaygu Samye Dzong London, Bermondsey (Tibetan) London Buddhist Centre (Triratna) London Buddhist Vihara (Sri Lankan) London Fo Guang Shan Temple, Marylebone (Chinese) Mahamevnawa Buddhist Monastery, Watford and Billericay (Sri Lankan) Three Wheels Temple, Acton (Pure Land) Wat Buddhapadipa ...
A few of the significant events were the foundation of London’s Buddhist Society in 1924 and the Theravada London Buddhist Vihara in Chiswick in 1926. Anagarika Dharmapala (1864-1933), the founder of the Mahā Bodhi Society in 1891, was instrumental in presenting Buddhism as a living monastic tradition to the UK. [ 3 ]
Hammalawa Saddhatissa Maha Thera (1914–1990) was an ordained Buddhist monk, missionary and author from Sri Lanka, educated in Varanasi, London, and Edinburgh. [1] He was a contemporary of Walpola Rahula , also of Sri Lanka.
The building now serves as the London Buddhist Vihara. [12] He designed a single block with matching heights but varying architectural details to contain the Stores, a manager's house, and the "Hostelry", now The Tabard pub downstairs and the Chiswick Playhouse theatre upstairs. This was influential in the design of later suburbs.
The establishment of some of the first Theravāda Viharas in the Western world, such as the London Buddhist Vihara (1926), Das Buddhistische Haus in Berlin (1957) and the Washington Buddhist Vihara in Washington, DC (1965).
The Tabard public house was built in 1880 by the architect Norman Shaw as one of the public buildings of the Bedford Park garden suburb; the others, nearby, are the Bedford Park Stores, St Michael and All Angels church, and a clubhouse, now the London Buddhist Vihara. [3]