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The Buddhist Society is a UK registered charity with the stated aim to: :() ''publish and make known the principles of Buddhism and to encourage the study and practice of those principles.'' The Buddhist Society is an inter-denominational and non-sectarian lay organization. It offers talks and classes on the teachings of all the different major mainstream Buddhist schools and traditions, as well as a structured programme of courses on general Buddhism, for both the public and members. It has a publishing programme and in its premises houses one of the main libraries in Britain on Buddhism. It is managed by an elected council and its patron is the 14th Dalai Lama. Among other publications, it produces ''The Buddhist Directory'', a reference book which lists the vast majority of Buddhist groups, centres and other related organisations in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and ''The Middle Way'', a quarterly journal. ==History== The Society was created in 1924 in London as an offshoot of a Theosophical Lodge by Christmas Humphreys, a British judge and convert to Buddhism. It became an independent body in 1926 and Humphreys remained its president until his death in 1983. In 1961 His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama became patron of the Society, the first organisation in the West to be so honoured. The Buddhist Society was one of the first Buddhist organisations outside Asia and remains one of the oldest in Europe to date. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Buddhist Society」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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