The Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship
Founded by Guru Bawa, a Sufi teacher from Sri Lanka (Ceylon),
is said to be over a hundred years old. Around 1940 he
established an ashram on a farm in Sri Lanka, teaching a traditional
Sufi doctrine. He traveled to the United States about
1971 to help found a Serendib Sufi study circle in Philadelphia.
Other small fellowship groups sprang up around his teachings.
He spoke Tamil and seems to have spent some time in South
India. A Singalese doctor translated his Tamil discourses into
English. His followers established the Guru Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Fellowship, now headquartered at 5820 Overbrook Ave.,
Philadelphia, PA 19131-1212. Website httpwww.bmf.org.
Sources
Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship. httpwww.bmf.org.
March 27, 2000.
Muhaiyadden, Guru Bawa, Shaikh. God, His Prophets, and
His Children. Philadelphia Fellowship Press, 1978.
. Guidebook. 2 vols. Philadelphia Fellowship Press,
1976.
. Mata Veeram, or the Forces of Illusion. York Beach,
Maine Samuel Weiser, 1982.
. Truth and Light. Philadelphia Guru Bawa Fellowship
of Philadelphia, 1974.
