“Caste organizes social life not only among Hindus but also in Muslim, Christian, Sikh and Buddhist communities in the region. It is an intergenerational system based on birth into a caste grou ...

Buddhism’s influence on Ambedkar is well-documented, including in his famous treatise “The Annihilation of Caste.” Lesser known are his contributions and reforms to the Buddhist faith.

Tens of thousands of Buddhist pilgrims visit Nagpur during ... umbilical cord connecting it to Hinduism and its airtight caste system that no one can escape, even after several rebirths.

Consequently, Buddhist teachings view Hindu rituals as ... However, it rejects the Hindu caste system as an illusory and harmful structure that causes suffering. For Buddhists, spiritual ...

In 2015, she chose to embrace Buddhism. I realised that as a Buddhist, I could be anything I wanted and define my own identity. Otherwise, I would remain a victim of the caste system and the ...

He rejected the caste system, asserting the importance of ethical ... a woman from the untouchable caste and Ananda, a revered Buddhist monk. Drawing inspiration from Buddhist scriptures, Tagore ...

Dallas Stribley / Getty Images A caste system segregates people into fixed social groups based on discriminatory notions of purity and contamination. People are placed into fixed social groups in ...

She ties Dalit oppression to fights for liberation among Black, Indigenous, Latinx, femme, and Queer communities, examining caste from a feminist, abolitionist, and Dalit Buddhist perspective ...

The prevalence of the caste system in the present-day Buddhist societies of Sri Lanka, Nepal, Ladakh, and Burma provides corroborative evidence that Buddhism did not challenge, nay, accept the ...