The Dalit Buddhist movement (also known as the Neo-Buddhist movement, Buddhist movement for Dalits, Ambedkarite Buddhist movement and Modern Buddhist movement)...
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Engaged Buddhism (redirect from Engaged Buddhist)
Thiền Buddhist teacher Thích Nhất Hạnh. It was popularised by the Indian jurist, politician, and social reformer B. R. Ambedkar, who inspired the Dalit Buddhist...
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History of Buddhism in India (redirect from Indian Buddhist)
Buddhism have included the Maha Bodhi Society, the Vipassana movement, and the Dalit Buddhist movement spearheaded by B. R. Ambedkar. There has also been a growth...
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Navayana (redirect from Neo-Buddhist)
different ideas, but rather as a new social movement founded on the principles of Buddhism. In the Dalit Buddhist movement, Navayāna is considered an independent...
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Kumud Pawde (category Dalit activists)
Ambedkar’s Dalit Buddhist movement. She studied Sanskrit at the time when untouchability was rife and Dalits faced barriers; she was amongst first Dalits to learn...
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Yashwant Ambedkar (category Dalit activists)
took an active part in the Dalit Buddhist movement. After his father died in 1956, he became the second president of the Buddhist Society of India and continued...
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1956, the Dalit jurist Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) launched the Dalit Buddhist movement, leading several mass conversions of Dalits from Hinduism...
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1980s, and it was later joined by many Dalit-Buddhist activists. The backdrop for the formation of the Dalit Panthers was set by various socio-political...
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B. R. Ambedkar (category Dalit leaders)
minister in the first cabinet of Jawaharlal Nehru, and inspired the Dalit Buddhist movement after renouncing Hinduism. After graduating from Elphinstone College...
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