ISBN:
9781000202427
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (327 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Classical Buddhism, Neo-Buddhism and the question of caste
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Indien
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Buddhismus
;
Neubuddhismus
;
Hinduismus
;
Kaste
Abstract:
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 -- 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 -- 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.
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