In 1945 Christmas Humphreys developed the Twelve Principles of Buddhism on behalf of the Buddhist Society, London, who felt the need for a brief summary of Buddhism which could be disseminated at its meetings. Established in 1924; the Society remains one of the oldest Buddhist organisations in Europe, who's aim is to publish and make known the principles of Buddhism and encourage the study and practice of those principles. The Twelve Principles were approved by a convention of seventeen of the principle Buddhist sects of Japan, by a specially convened Council of the Siamese Sangha and the Supreme Patriarch of Siam and by leading Buddhists in China, Burma, Ceylon and by representatives of Buddhists in Tibet. The Twelve Principles of Buddhism represented the first significant step towards the formulation of a 'World Buddhism' and has not been superceded since.