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{{Short description|Indian Buddhist organisation}}
'''Bengal Buddhist Association''' ({{langx|bn|বৌদ্ধ ধর্মাঙ্কুর সভা}}, '''Bôuddhô Dhôrmāṅkurô Sôbhā''') is a Buddhist organisation based in [[Kolkata]].

==History==
This institution was established by [[Kripasaran|Kṛpāśaraṇa Mahāsthabira]] on 5 October 1892.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FeVmDAAAQBAJ&dq=Bengal+Buddhist+Association&pg=PA127|title=A Cry for Dignity: Religion, Violence and the Struggle of Dalit Women in India|last=Mary Grey|date=16 June 2016|isbn=9781315478401|access-date=March 6, 2019}}</ref> It was influenced by modernist South Asian Buddhist currents such as [[Sri Lanka|Sri Lankan]] [[Buddhist modernism]] as well as Western Oriental scholarship and spiritual movements like [[Theosophy (Blavatskian)|Theosophy]]. The aim of the organisation was to revive, practice and propagate the principles of [[Buddhism]] in [[India]] and nurture [[Buddhist studies]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bengalbuddhist.com/AboutUs.html|title=ABOUT US|access-date=March 6, 2019}}</ref> In 1903, Dharmankur Buddhist Temple was set up in [[Bow Barracks]] in Kolkata by the association.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Bauddha_Dharmankur_Sabha|title=Bauddha Dharmankur Sabha|access-date=March 6, 2019}}</ref> In 1908 their journal ''Jagajjyoti'' was first published.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/Englisch/fachinfo/suedasien/zeitschriften/bengali/jagajjyotih.html|title=Jagajjyotih (Calcutta, Bengal Buddhist Association|access-date=March 6, 2019}}</ref>

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