LONDON – Buddhists in Japan — aided by an Irishman — established the religion’s first Western mission in London, according to research by a team of academics in Ireland and Japan.
The recent discovery overturns the long-held assumption that the first Buddhist mission in the West was set up in California in 1899.
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