UID:
almahu_9949386420302882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781000202427
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1000202429
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9781000202564
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1000202569
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9781000202496
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1000202496
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9781003045090
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100304509X
Content:
This book examines the interface between Buddhism and the caste system in India. It discusses how Buddhism in different stages, from its early period to contemporary forms--Theravda, Mahyna, Tantrayna and Navayna--dealt with the question of caste. It also traces the intersections between the problem of caste with those of class and gender. The volume reflects on the interaction between Hinduism and Buddhism: it looks at critiques of caste in the classical Buddhist tradition while simultaneously drawing attention to the radical challenge posed by DrB. R. Ambedkar's Navayna Buddhism or neo-Buddhism. The essays in the book further compare approaches to vara and caste developed by modern thinkers such as M.K. Gandhi and S. Radhakrishnan with Ambedkar's criticisms and his departures from mainstream appraisals. With its interdisciplinary methodology, combining insights from literature, philosophy, political science and sociology, the volume explores contemporary critiques of caste from the perspective of Buddhism and its historical context. By analyzing religion through the lens of caste and gender, it also forays into the complex relationship between religion and politics, while offering a rigorous study of the textual tradition of Buddhism in India. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of Indian philosophy, Buddhist studies, Indology, literature (especially Sanskrit and Pli), exclusion and discrimination studies, history, political studies, women studies, sociology, and South Asian studies.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Note on Transliteration -- Foreword: Caste in Classical and Contemporary Buddhism -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Classical Buddhism and Caste -- 1 Buddha's Attitude towards the Caste System as Available in Pāli Texts -- 2 Caste in Classical Indian Philosophy: Some Ontological Problems -- 3 Epistemological Foundations of Caste Identities: A Review of Buddhist Critique of Classical Orthodox Indian Realism
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4 Casting Away the Caste: A Buddhist Standpoint in the Vimalaprabhā Commentary on the Kālacakra Tantra -- Part II: Neo-Buddhism: Ambedkar on Caste, Class and Gender -- 5 Buddha and Ambedkar on Caste: A Comparative Overview -- 6 Neo-Buddhism, Marxism and the Caste Question In India -- 7 Ambedkar's Critique of Patriarchy: Interrogating at Intersection of Caste and Gender -- Part III: Hinduism and Buddhism: Interaction, Conflict and Beyond -- 8 Buddhism and Hindu Society: Some Observations from Medieval Marathi Literature
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9 The Buddhist Past as a Cultural Conflict: Ambedkar's Exhumation of Indian History -- 10 Gandhi and Ambedkar on Caste -- Part IV: Religion, Modernity and Navayāna Buddhism -- 11 Social Solidarity or Individual Perfection: Conceptions of Religion in Ambedkar and Radhakrishnan -- 12 Religion, Caste and Modernity: Ambedkar's Reconstruction of Buddhism -- 13 Ambedkar and Modern Buddhism: Continuity and Discontinuity -- Appendix I: Vajrasūci -- Appendix II: Vajrasūci and its Reverberations -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780815381679
Language:
English
Keywords:
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URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003045090
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