Book: Selected Writings of Allan Bennett, Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya
Chapter: Extension of the Empire of Righteousness to Western Lands: Address of Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya, Director of the Buddhasasana Samagama, at the Sixth Annual Convention of the International Buddhist Society, December 17, 1908 (1909)
Blurb:
This is an address given by Metteyya in Rangoon to the Buddhasāsana Samāgama (the International Buddhist Society) in December 1908, after his mission to Britain. It contains a passionate appeal to his Burmese supporters that they should donate to the cause of Buddhism in the west, as a moral duty. In the disempowering context of British colonialism, he offers his listeners agency in supporting what was happening in Britain.