Ambedkar’s Navayana Buddhism: Special on Ambedkar’s death anniversary

Bharat Ratna Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar's (1891 – 1956) Parinirvan Diwas or Punya Tithi was observed on December 6 who had initiated the Dalit Buddhist movement in India.

It was in 1955, he founded the Bharatiya Bauddha Mahasabha (Buddhist Society of India) and wrote a book "The Buddha and His Dhamma" which was published in 1956 posthumously and is viewed as the scripture of Navayana Buddhism propounded by him.

On his Parinirvan Diwas at Deekshabhoomi Stupa in Nagpur and Ambedkar Memorial in Mumbai his followers gathered to pay homage to him and commit themselves to Navayana Buddhism.

It was in 1935, he expressed his desire his conversion from Hinduism to Buddhism of his own kind by re-interpreting the the Buddhist scriptures and propounding Navayana.

It was in October 1956, he rejected of Theravada Buddhism; Mahayana Buddhism and Hinduism to adopt Navayana, which appears to be more of Social Buddhism.

MY HAIKU BASED ON NAVAYANA

The Buddha Dhamma –

It is to find righteousness

As self-discovery

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Two essentials are:

Sharing and equity –

For life with reason

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Righteousness, justice

In social and work lives

That’s Neo Buddhism

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Mahayana sect,

Theravada, have rituals -

Not Buddha Dhama

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Create Navayana

With right inter-relations

In life’s all spheres