Benevolent
Organisation for Development, Health & Insight (BODHI) sprang
from the heart of Dr Colin Butler
during his volunteer medical work in Nepal and Nigeria in 1985. He
felt that Western Buddhists spend too much time talking about compassion
and not enough time acting upon it. BODHI crystallised in Los Angeles
in 1989, during teachings by the Dalai Lama. Later that year, His
Holiness accepted BODHI's request to become its founding patron. In
1990, Dr Maurice King
of Leeds University, England, one of the fathers of third-world medicine,
became our public health adviser. Later that year, committed environmentalist
Senator Bob Brown became
BODHI's environmental adviser.
