THE ABERDEEN PRESS AND JOURNAL

Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

29 September 1908

(page 5)

BHIKKHU ANANDA METTEYYA.

‘Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya, the Buddhist monk who has lectured before the Congress of Religions at Oxford, is soon to return to Burma. Notwithstanding the curious foreign name under which he now passes, he is a Scotsman, who at one time was known to the world as Allan Bennett Macgregor. He is well satisfied, he told an interviewer this afternoon, with the progress of his mission. Between twenty or thirty people in this country who were formerly agnostics have embraced his faith. Buddhism, he maintains, is not antagonistic to any religion, and he holds that it is the only means by which Christian ideals can be restored.