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[[File:Plan Buddhist Shrine (Adyar).jpg|right|150px|thumb|Plan for the Buddhist Shrine at Adyar]]
[[File:Buddhist Shrine (Adyar).jpg|left|200px|thumb|Buddhist Shrine at Adyar]]
The '''Buddhist Shrine''' at [[Adyar (campus)|Adyar]] was built in 1925 under the direction of [[Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa|Mr C. Jinarajadasa]]. 

On [[February 12]], 1883, while [[Henry Steel Olcott|Col. Olcott]] and [[Alexis Coulomb|Alexis]] and [[Emma Coulomb]] where working in the Occult Room, there fell a note from [[Koot Hoomi|Master K.H.]] with Rs. 150, and the plan of a sanctuary for a statue of the [[Gautama Buddha|Buddha]] with orders to have it constructed. This did not happen until 1925, before the [[Golden Jubilee Convention]].
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== Visit by the Dalai and Panchen Lamas ==

Young [[Tenzin Gyatso, the XIV Dalai Lama]] and the Panchen Lama traveled to India for the first time in 1956, to celebrate the birth of [[Gautama Buddha]]. During their tour, on [[December 18]], they went to the [[Adyar (campus)|International Headquarters]] of the Theosophical Society in Adyar, Chennai, and visited the Buddhist Shrine.<ref>See [http://www.theosophical.org/history-of-this-event The Relationship between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and The Theosophical Society] at The Theosophical Society in America website</ref>
 
== Online resources ==
*[http://www.ts-adyar.org/node/96 The Buddhist Shrine]

== Notes ==
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