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Was the London Buddhist Society the first Western Sangha?

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Christmas Humphreys founded the London Buddhist society in 1924. Would this have been the first sangha in the West? Wikipedia says of it > The Buddhist Society of London is one of the oldest Buddhist > organisations outside Asia So were there other groups of western born Buddhists practicing together even earlier than this or would this truly have been the first such grouping? For the sake of this question I am taking sangha to mean any sort of Buddhist community. I appreciate it often refers specifically to a monastic community however I want to use a broader definition here.
Asked by Crab Bucket (21199 rep)
Sep 10, 2014, 06:09 PM
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