AHMEDABAD, India (RNS) Dosa vendor Sunil Gagnath Sabkale watches over a fragile Buddhist temple across the street from a market where he sells his crepelike pancakes. The temple consists of a small ...

I met Minal at a retreat center in rural England in March 2023, and we became fast friends. We were there to attend a Buddhist course, with six other women from different parts of the world. Over the ...

MUMBAI, India - Next month, Kanti Sarvaiya will abandon his Hindu heritage and become a Buddhist. "Hinduism has done nothing for us," said Sarvaiya, 20, who lives in the western state of Gujarat. "So ...

Kanti Sarvaiya left his Hindu heritage behind and became a Buddhist. “Hinduism has done nothing for us,” said Sarvaiya, 20, who lives in the western Indian state of Gujarat. “So our family elders have ...

Claiming Hindu nationalist admiration for Ambedkar is problematic, however, said Harish Suchdeve, a retired banker and Buddhist convert who is now active in the conversion movement. Distinct from ...

The conversion of tens of thousands of lower caste Hindus to Buddhism earlier this week in Gujarat state, which local authorities say they plan to investigate, may only be the beginning of a much ...

MUMBAI, India (AP) -- About 2,000 low-caste Hindu Indians bowed before orange-robed monks and recited prayers as they converted to Buddhism in a mass ceremony Sunday that they said would bring them ...

In their long struggle for equality, India’s dalits, or “untouchables,” have often exchanged their Hinduism for Islam, Christianity, Sikhism or Buddhism, believing that they will better their lives by ...

Akhil Karnataka Buddha Dakhalaathi Andolana Samiti of district unit-a consortium of Dalit Organisations, has urged the followers of B.R. Ambedkar to mark “Buddhism” as their religion while mentioning ...

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