Ambedkar and Buddhism |
Contents
Preface | 1 |
The Significance of Ambedkar | 3 |
Three Meetings | 15 |
The Hell of Caste | 28 |
Milestones on the Road to Conversion | 50 |
The Search for Roots | 81 |
Thinking about Buddhism | 100 |
The Great Mass Conversion | 127 |
The Buddha and His Dhamma | 145 |
After Ambedkar | 162 |
Notes | 173 |
Further Reading | 180 |
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