This institution was established by
Kṛpāśaraṇa Mahāsthabira on 5 October 1892. It was influenced by modernist South Asian Buddhist currents such as
Sri Lankan Buddhist modernism as well as Western Oriental scholarship and spiritual movements like
Theosophy. The aim of the organisation was to revive, practice and propagate the principles of
Buddhism in
India and nurture
Buddhist studies. In 1903, Dharmankur Buddhist Temple was set up in
Bow Barracks in Kolkata by the association. In 1908 their journal
Jagajjyoti was first published. ==References==