Sangharakshita Pilgrimage
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Burgh House, Hampstead

London, England · 1964–1965

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51.55700°N, -0.16780°E

Key Facts

  • Burgh House is an early eighteenth-century Queen Anne building at Well Walk, Hampstead — now Burgh House and Hampstead Museum.
  • Sangharakshita moved his public lectures here while building works were ongoing at the Vihara.
  • The venue's 'eighteenth-century splendours' gave lectures a more formal, prestigious setting.
  • The lecture 'Buddhism and the Bishop of Woolwich' (referring to John Robinson, author of *Honest to God*) was among those given here.

“Lectures would be held amid the eighteenth-century splendours of Burgh House, in the heart of old Hampstead.”

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