An excerpt from Great Buddhists of the Twentieth Century

In 1995 Sangharakshita gave a lecture at the London headquarters of the Maha Bodhi Society, which was founded by Dharmapala, the first of Sangharakshita’s choice of five great Buddhists. Sangharakshita had a connection with the society going back some fifty years, and edited its publication, the Maha Bodhi, for twelve years from 1952. The lecture was given – by an unforeseen but auspicious coincidence – on 14 October, the anniversary of the great mass conversion initiated by Dr Ambedkar in 1956.

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