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Dec 08, 1872 London Died on 09 Mar 1923 (aged 50)
chemist and occultist
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About Charles Henry Allan Bennett
- Charles Henry Allan Bennett (8 December 1872 – 9 March 1923) was a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
- He was a close associate of author and occultist Aleister Crowley. Bennett received the name Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya at his ordination as a Buddhist monk and spent years studying and practicing Buddhism in the East.
- He was the second Englishman to be ordained as a Buddhist monk (Bhikkhu) of the Theravada tradition and was instrumental in introducing Buddhism in England.
- He established the first Buddhist Mission in the United Kingdom.
