Indian Institute of Culture (Maitri Bhavan), Bangalore
Bangalore, India · 1954
12.97160°N, 77.59460°E
Key Facts
- ◆ B. P. and Sophia Wadia's Institute and residence (Maitri Bhavan, meaning 'Abode of Loving-Kindness') on a tree-lined avenue in a quiet Bangalore suburb.
- ◆ Four lectures given on 'The Buddha and Buddhism', 'Hīnayāna and Mahāyāna', 'The Schools of the Mahāyāna', and 'The Bodhisattva Ideal'.
- ◆ The hall grew more packed with each lecture; by the fourth there was the largest and most appreciative audience the Institute had seen.
- ◆ Sangharakshita also answered over sixty written questions at a special Q&A meeting.
- ◆ A Survey of Buddhism was later hailed by a leading Ceylonese scholar as 'the principal event of the Buddha Jayanti year'.
“The adage that ‘one thing leads to another’… was certainly exemplified in the case of the circumstances that led to my being in Bangalore in the summer of 1954 and there delivering, under the auspices of the Indian Institute of Culture, the lectures which subsequently appeared in book form as A Survey of Buddhism.”
— In the Sign of the Golden Wheel
“Throughout the series the hall, comfortably full at first, had become more tightly packed with each lecture, while the audience, greatly augmented though it was, had grown ever more attentive, and more concentrated.”
— In the Sign of the Golden Wheel
Source: In the Sign of the Golden Wheel
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