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Home About ABSC Trailblazers Shop Events Memberships Listen to the Dharma Contact Volunteer More Bringing together Buddhist Wisdom and Japanese Culture for more than Seventy Years The ABSC vision is to bring together American and global communities who seek the unconditional wisdom and compassion expressed in Buddhist teachings. Trailblazers The American Buddhist Study honors outstanding individuals who have made the Buddha Dharma their lifetime mission to create a better world The ABSC honors Mary Foster Mary Mikahala Robinson Foster was a 19th Century native Hawaiian Buddhist global philanthropist and social activist. Mary Foster was a Hawaiian royalty who in October 1893 at Honolulu met with Anagarika Dharmapala the renowned Buddhist missionary from Sri Lanka. Thus was born a friendship and collaboration that endured throughout both their lives and led to the modern transformation of Buddhism as a world religion across three continents.