How anti-caste reformer BR Ambedkar left his legacy on modern Buddhism
A 125-foot statue of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, which was inaugurated on his birth anniversary, is seen overlooking new secretariat building in Hyderabad, India, Friday, April 14, 2023. Ambedkar, an untouchable, or dalit, and a prominent Indian freedom fighter, was the chief architect of the Indian Constitution, which outlawed discrimination based on caste.(AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
(RNS) — Many Buddhists today trace their social justice activism to the work of BR Ambedkar, the Indian caste abolitionist who once led a mass conversion of Dalits, or lower caste, to Buddhism.
