<Li> Buddhism in Scotland </Li> <Li> Buddhism in Wales </Li> <P> In Britain, the earliest Buddhist influences came from the Theravada traditions of Burma, Thailand, and Sri Lanka . Interest in them among Brits was primarily scholarly to begin with, and a tradition of study grew up that eventually resulted in the foundation of the Pali Text Society, which undertook the huge task of translating the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhist texts into English . The start of interest in Buddhism as a path of practice had been pioneered by the original Theosophists, the Russian Madame Blavatsky and the American Colonel Olcott, who in 1880 became the first Westerners to receive the refuges and precepts, the ceremony by which one traditionally becomes a Buddhist . They were also later received into the Hindu religion . </P> <P> Theosophical and Theravadin influences continued throughout the early twentieth century, though the 1950s saw the development of interest in Zen Buddhism . In 1966, Freda Bedi, a British woman, became the first Western woman to take ordination in Tibetan Buddhism . In 1967, Kagyu Samyé Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre was founded in Eskdalemuir, Scotland; it is the largest Tibetan Buddhist centre in Western Europe . It has many affiliated centres in major UK cities, including Kagyu Samye Dzong London . The Manjushri Kadampa Buddhist Centre in Conishead Priory, located just outside Barrow - in - Furness, Cumbria, is a large New Kadampa Tradition Tibetan Buddhist centre . The priory, established by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso in 1975, claims to be' the mother centre from which around 1100 Kadampa Buddhist centres have been set up worldwide' . </P>

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