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The Young Buddhist Association (YBA) is an auxiliary lay group of the Buddhist Churches of America, the mainland U.S. branch of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism. Founded in 1974 and originally known as the "Young Men's Buddhist Association" (YMBA, which was modeled after YMCA), the YBA began as a way to offer communal activities for young Japanese-American Shin Buddhist men in the United States.
Barrister Don Baron Jayatilaka, President of the YMBA Colombo, pre 1920.. The YMBA, or Young Men's Buddhist Association, was created in Sri Lanka in 1898. The main founder was C. S. Dissanayake [1] as part of a bid to provide Buddhist institutions as an alternative to YMCA, otherwise known as the Young Men's Christian Association.
Yemyo Imamura (今村恵猛) (May 27, 1867 – December 22, 1932) was a Buddhist priest who was active in Honolulu, Hawaii, and was a leader in the Japanese American community. He was a priest at the Honpa Hongwanji, and started their Young Men's Buddhist Association (YMBA).
Tracing its roots to the Young Men's Buddhist Association founded in San Francisco at the end of the 19th century and the Buddhist Mission of North America founded in 1899, [17] it took its current form in 1944.
Trenham’s church has 1,000 active participants, and, although recent converts in his congregation have been split roughly evenly between men and women, he agrees that most Orthodox churches ...
Young Men's Buddhist Association; Young Men's Buddhist Association (Burma) Young Men's Institute This page was last edited on 8 July 2021, at 00:05 (UTC). Text is ...
American Zen Teachers Association; Buddhist Churches of America; Buddhist Global Relief; Buddhist Peace Fellowship; Buddhist Women's Association; Cambridge Buddhist Association
A total of 15 men under the age of 30 from Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin participated in conversations as part of the NBC News Deciders Focus Group.