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This 9 page paper provides an overview of buddhism as well as its place in India today. How it has been viewed as better than Hinduism and how it has affected the caste system are some things explored. The caste system and its detrimental nature is also discussed. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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been extinct for centuries in India (Tartakov, 1990). Buddhism had in the past been a traditional Indian faith based upon premises familiar to all Indians (1990). Yet, some
people call this conversion back to buddhism a social revolution. Besides rejecting the caste system, Buddhism is also a major world religion, and has a great deal of support
in the nations surrounding India (1990). It is also a religion spread at the very highest levels of education. The neo-Buddhist movement does have strong intellectual roots (Mangalwadi, 2002).
It is not a religion that appeals to the masses alone, but involves convincing and the use of common sense. Many of the ideas in buddhism are concepts and not
hard and fast rules one might expect to find in the Judeo-Christian bible. It was on October 14, 1956, when Ambedkar would take his Buddhist diksa at Nagpur and
on that day and the next, he would personally convert about one-half million people (Tartakov, 1990). When the 1961 census was taken, there had been 3.25 million Buddhists in
India, and millions more had converted since that time (1990). For Ambedkar, for example, and his many associates and followers, the conversion had not merely been a practical matter, but
one of deep, psychological significance (1990). They had rejected a system that condemned them, but they had also committed themselves to an ideology that disputed the possibility of karma, transmigration,
and divine hierarchy by birth, thus embracing a faith that stressed the equality of all human beings (1990). In repudiating the power and prestige of the brahmans as well
as their creed, they had chosen an alternative that promised them progress with no limits (1990). Ambedkars epithet, Maitreya, would carry significance in terms of the movement he founded, as
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