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Sangharakshita, the founder of the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order, spent 20 years in India.
Fourteen of those yeas were spent in Kalimpong, a small town in the eastern Himalayas, at the behest
of his teacher and preceptor, the Venerable Jagdish Kashyap. Here Sangharakshita studied, meditated, wrote, organised buddhist
activities and became known to a wide circle of friends and co-religionists, some like -minded and some not.
One of the former was Dr. Ambedkar, the architect of the constitution of independent India and leader
of the Dalits (ex untouchables).
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