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...r|B.R. Ambedkar]]'s death and sixteen years after his conversion, in which Buddhist identity was present but was neither the organizing principle nor, so far a ...a model and were influenced by the trade-union protests that shook Bombay in the late 1960s.<ref name="Hunt2014">Hunt, Sarah Beth (2014). ''Hindi Dalit ...

...non.<ref name="ankit">Ankit, Rakesh (2017). "Marxist Guru, Socialist Neta, Buddhist Acharya, Gandhi's Shishya: the many Narendra Deva(s) (1889–1956)". ''Global ...n LL.B. in 1915; he reports that he took up law only in order to take part in politics.<ref>Ankit (2017), "Marxist Guru", p. 3; Deva (1956), ''Bauddha-Dh ...

.... Scholars disagree about whether Ambedkarite Buddhism is a break from the Buddhist tradition or a continuation of it.<ref name="Gokhale2021">Gokhale, Pradeep == Buddhism in India == ...

...attempts to join Ambedkar with Marx, and the Dalit branch of the Triratna Buddhist Community. ...name], & [Given name] Mukherjee (2017). "Buddhism in Contemporary India". In: Jerryson, Michael (Ed.), ''The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism'': ...

...ch 1959 following the Lhasa Uprising and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. ...o not always match, "just as not every Buddhist follows the Buddha's words in the same way."<ref>Goldstein, Sherap, & Siebenschuh (2004), ''A Tibetan Rev ...

...the cases in which a writer was also a Buddhist monk, a socialist who used Buddhist ideas, or both. The literature developed largely apart from the [[Dalit Bud ...r, Douglas (2023). ''Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India''. Stanford University Press, pp. 227–251 and endnotes to chapter 6 (pp. 32 ...

...n in which Neo-Buddhists formed one named constituency among several. Born in 1949, he falls outside the project's core period of the 1900s to the 1960s, ...rces available for this entry do not say when or in what form he adopted a Buddhist identity. ...

...er in 1962. He remained, for the rest of his life, a symbol of nonviolent, Buddhist-inflected opposition to military rule. ...As president of the Rangoon University Students' Union, Nu joined Aung San in leading the landmark 1936 student strike, sparked by their expulsion for re ...

...ste Buddhism. This page describes the movement, keeps its Buddhist and non-Buddhist strands apart, and gives its three best-documented figures short sections. ...chievement as uniting the untouchable ''jatis'' (castes) as descendants of India's original inhabitants, inverting the contrast between "indigenous" and "fo ...

...y, Kate & Ashin Janaka (2016). "All Too Human: The Impact of International Buddhist Networks on the Life and Posthumous Conviction of the Burmese Nationalist M ...entually attained the highest level of formal Buddhist education available in Burma. His early intellectual development nevertheless took place within a ...

...form of radical Buddhist modernism, in which critical reinterpretations of Buddhist doctrine and institutions could lead to radical social conclusions without == Buddhism in Burma == ...

...astics and lay officials who attempted, in various registers, to reconcile Buddhist ethics and institutions with Marxist economic critique, anti-colonial polit == Buddhism in Tibet == ...

...biography far better than any developed synthesis of Buddhism and Marxism in his own thought. ...'s clothing" and no credit to the Buddha.<ref>Jayawardena (1979), "Bhikkus in Revolt", part 3, p. 11.</ref> ...

...idiosyncratic, figure in the history of radical, socially engaged Buddhism in twentieth-century South Asia. ...r, Douglas (2023). ''Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India''. Stanford University Press, ch. 5, citing Keer (2009), pp. 19–21.</ref> ...

...ociety]], whose officers included the future communist M. Singaravelu, and in 1903 [[Dharmanand Kosambi]] worked among its members. The movement combined ...gress to 1891 (Aloysius, G. (1998). ''Religion as Emancipatory Identity: A Buddhist Movement among the Tamils under Colonialism''. New Age International, pp. 5 ...

...nal Buddhist commitment and institutional activity with a socialist strand in his reading of Buddhism; he was a Gandhian and not a Marxist, and he remain ...his vows in Ceylon were those of a novice and that the full ordination was in Burma. The memoir does not date the novice ordination; it falls between Ves ...

...onks" of the 1940s to isolated attempts, largely undocumented, to derive a Buddhist socialism from the Dharma itself. == Buddhism in Sri Lanka == ...

...politics make him a foundational figure for the study of radical Buddhism in South Asia. .... The identification of this Bodhanand with other figures of the same name in the literature (see the discussion of the Adi-Hindu movement) is unsettled. ...

...uch as the Tamang, and a Theravada reform movement that began among Newars in the 1920s. ...a meeting place for [[India]]n figures such as [[Rahul Sankrityayan]] and, in 1956, [[BR Ambedkar|B.R. Ambedkar]]; and the secularism campaign and the en ...

...t Association after 1949 illustrate a recurring structural tension between Buddhist claims to intellectual autonomy and the ideological demands of a Marxist-Le ([[Taiwan]] and [[Tibet]] will be discussed in separate pages.) ...