B. R. Ambedkar · Politics
At the end of his life Ambedkar led half a million followers out of Hinduism and into Buddhism - but a Buddhism remade: <em>Navayana</em>, a rational, this-worldly faith of liberty, equality, and fraternity, stripped of superstition and centred on human dignity.
You learned that Ambedkar rejected Hinduism as inseparable from caste and, in 1956, converted to Buddhism with half a million followers, that he chose Buddhism for combining prajna (reason against superstition), karuna (compassion), and samata (equality), that his Navayana reinterpreted Buddhism as a rational, this-wo…
Leads to the Navayana Buddhist movement.
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