Ananda Vihara, Maha Bodhi Society, Bombay
Bombay, India · 1955–1956
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19.00820°N, 72.83700°E
Key Facts
- ◆ Built in the 1920s by Dr Anandrao Nair, a wealthy South Indian physician who had become a Buddhist and founded the Buddha Society Bombay.
- ◆ Located on a busy thoroughfare in the Nair Hospital compound, not far from Bombay Central railway station.
- ◆ Sangharakshita described it as distinctly under-used: barely half a dozen visitors per week despite the adjacent hospital seeing hundreds daily.
- ◆ He gave lectures here on 'Buddhism and the Future of India' and 'Buddhist Meditation'.
- ◆ Served as the base from which he made contact with Dr Ambedkar's followers and with the Society of Servants of God.
“The modest, two-storey building was situated on a busy thoroughfare in the heart of the city, not far from Bombay Central railway station, and stood in a corner of the Nair Hospital compound.”
— In the Sign of the Golden Wheel
“The Ananda Vihara was in fact distinctly under-used. Vaiśākha Pūrṇimā was celebrated every year, and there was the occasional lecture, and that was about all.”
— In the Sign of the Golden Wheel
Source: In the Sign of the Golden Wheel
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