In the early seventies of last century a group of Bengali speaking Buddhist people who were mainly migrated from their ancestral place of the Chittagong district of the then East Pakistan and present Bangladesh during the post independence period were joined hands with an objective to unite their people residing in different parts of India and to maintain, safeguard and promote their cultural, religious, educational, economic and civic interest. This group was organizing meetings, seminars and debates in different parts of West Bengal and other states where there is a good number of Buddhist population was traced. In early 1973 the group noticed that there requests from their fellow members from different parts of the country to form a lay Buddhist organization with the participation of Buddhists whose mother tongue is Bengali and living in any part of India or abroad or a Buddhist who is born within the territory of the state of West Bengal, whatever may be his mother tongue. Out of this inspiration the group decided to form an organization with its name "All India Federation of Bengali Buddhists" which will work for the interest of the Bengali Buddhist and wherein people from different parts of India will be represented.
Registration No : SO016412 of 1975 – 76 under The West Bengal Societies Registration Act,1961.
Venerable Buddharakkhita Mahasthabir is a senior Theravadi Buddhist Monk and a renowned Meditation teacher. He is the Bhikkhu-in-Charge of ''Vidarshan Siksha Kendra'' (Pottery Road), Kolkata. At present he is conducting One-day ANAPANA and Ten-days VIPASSANA meditation courses in different parts of India and Bangladesh. He is performing all ritual activities of the organization and represents as its Spiritual Heads in various Seminars, Workshops, Conferences and in Dharma Talks. He is attached with our organization for the last 18-years.
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Dr. Brahmanda Pratap Barua a well-known academician and academic administrator. A most veteran member of the organization and serving as its President over 20-years. He is recognised as an authority in the field of "Library and Information Science" who in his professional career was raised to the post of Director, 'Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation', an autonomous organization under Ministry of Culture, Government of India. Prior to joining Library Administration Services he was a Member of the Faculty of a Government College. He has authored many valuable books and articles in the field of Library Science, Buddhist Studies and other fields of Social Science. He was the Editor of "Banglay Bauddha Dharma (Buddhism in Bengal)" , "Directory of Theravada Buddhist Temples in Eastern India" and “Banglay Saddhormer Punorutthan (Revival of Buddhism in Bengal)”. He is a M.A, B.Lib.Sc. and a Ph.D degree in his credit.
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Dr. Sujit Kumar Barua is associated with the organization for the last twenty years and holding the current post since 2006. In his professional life he is an academic administrator and served the University of Calcutta in different positions including the post of Deputy Registrar and Controller of Examinations. He is a B.Tech M.B.A and a Ph.D. degree in his credit.
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