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Buddhism and Brahmanism on the one hand, and neo-Buddhism and the Untouchables on the other, are the main issues with which this book has been concerned. Nowadays Brahmans are not what they were. Many Brahmans today are among the leaders of movements for social reconstruction, and many more are the bearers of new ideas of social equality. But the old values of Brahmanism survive and are found among less progressive, non-Brahman castes, described by an Indian newspaper recently as ‘the bigots of the interior’. It is with Brahmanism in this sense that this discussion is concerned. We have explored the relationships between Brahmanism and Buddhism, and between Brahmanism and the Untouchables. Two questions have now to be considered. First, what is the nature of the relationship between the Untouchables as a whole and neo-Buddhism? Second, what is the nature of the relationship between neo-Buddhism and Buddhism, as the latter exists in India and elsewhere, at present and potentially?
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B. Ambedkar, The Buddha and His Dhamma (1957) pp. 425–35.
M. Spiro, Buddhism and Society (1971); pp. 284–6, ‘The Function of Monasti- cism’.
Briefly, the doctrine that every pheonomenon, whether physical and mental, is conditioned by antecedent factors upon which it is dependent, the whole forming an uninterrupted flux. See Trevor Ling, The Buddha (Penguin Books,1976) pp. 132ff.
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See, e.g., James Silverberg (ed), Social Mobility in the Caste System in India (Comparative Studies in Society and History, Supplement III, 1968).
See Trevor Ling, The Buddha: Buddhist Civilisation in India and Ceylon (Penguin Books, 1976) p. 202. See also pp. 16–25 and 142–8.
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Ling, T. (1980). Neo-Buddhism: an assessment. In: Buddhist Revival in India. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16310-6_8
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