Gordon
Douglas
Gordon Douglas has traditionally been seen as the first European to
become ordained as a Bhikkhu in Southeast Asia although Laurence
Carroll (U Dhammaloka) and others are now understood to have been
earlier.
He was ordained in Siam in 1899 or 1900 and assumed
the name Bhikkhu Asoka or Ashoka. There are conflicting accounts of
what happened after his ordination. One account is that he died six
months later, the cause being cholera. The other account is that he
relocated to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and lived there until his death
in 1905. The latter is most likely because Dr. Cassius Pereira,
later Bhikkhu Kassapa Thera, gives an account of him in Ceylon and
interacting with his family.
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