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Ambedkar’s Children: Indian Buddhism Reborn Among the Untouchables

With justice on our side, I do not see how we can lose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy… For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is a battle for Read more

Buddha and the Future of His Religion by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar is the father of modern Buddhism in India, which has taken root among Dalit/ex-untouchable communities who practice the Buddha way because it teaches directly about the nature of suffering and the way to liberation.  Ambedkar’s essay “Buddha Read more

Right Anger and the Path to the End of the Caste by Hozan Alan Senauke

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And this, monks, is the noble truth of the way of practice leading to the cessation of dukkha: precisely this Noble Eightfold Path: right view, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.
                                                                                                 —Dhammacakkappavattana Read more

Four Movements in the History of Socially Engaged Buddhism and Their Central Contributions

by Donald Rothberg and Alan Senauke

What is socially engaged Buddhism? It is Dharma practice that flows from the understanding of the complete yet complicated interdependence of all life. It is the practice of the Bodhisattva vow to save all … Read more