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Great propagator of Buddhism in the West.
 

Read Christmas Humphreys for an eclectic presentation of Buddhism that transcend tradition and culture, yet dynamic, coherent and practical.


Christmas Humphreys was born in London in 1901.

Educated at Malvern and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Interested in Buddhism with the reading of Coomaraswamy’s Buddha and The Gospel of Buddhism at age 17. Introduced to Theosophy and joined Adyar Theosophical Society (1920), while continuing to study Buddhism.

Originally trained as a lawyer. Served as Senior Prosecuting Counsel at the Old Bailey, the London criminal courts, sat as a Circuit Judge and even sat on International War Crimes Tribunal
Parallel with this career he cultivated his interest in Buddhism, and as early as 1924 founded the Buddhist Society, London. As a publisher to the Society, he was responsible for its wide range of publications, including six of his own.

His interest was in world Buddhism as distinct from any of its various schools, and he believed that only in a combination of all schools can the full grandeur of Buddhist thought be found. In 1945 he expressed the consensus of such doctrines in Twelve Principles of Buddhism, which has been translated into fourteen languages.