Sangharakshita Pilgrimage

Bombay

India

2 pilgrimage sites

Ananda Vihara, Maha Bodhi Society, Bombay

Ananda Vihara, Maha Bodhi Society, Bombay

Bombay, India · 1955–1956

Sangharakshita's base during his 1955–56 Bombay period — a modest two-storey building in the Nair Hospital compound near Bombay Central, from which he made contact with Dr Ambedkar's followers and launched a transformation of Buddhist work in the city.
Buddha Bhavan, Siddharth College, Fort, Bombay

Buddha Bhavan, Siddharth College, Fort, Bombay

Bombay, India · 1955

Sangharakshita met Dr B. R. Ambedkar on Christmas Day 1955 in his top-floor office at Buddha Bhavan — the meeting at which Ambedkar laid out his entire plan for the mass conversion of the Scheduled Castes to Buddhism.