Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
These gatherings are often termed Buddhist "councils" (Pāli and Sanskrit: saṅgīti, literally meaning "reciting together" or "joint rehearsal"). [1] Accounts of these councils are recorded in Buddhist texts as having begun immediately following the death of the Buddha and have continued into the modern era. The earliest councils are regarded ...
This page was last edited on 12 October 2024, at 18:43 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
This is a list of notable Buddhists, encompassing all the major branches of the religion (i.e. in Buddhism), and including interdenominational and eclectic Buddhist practitioners. This list includes both formal teachers of Buddhism , and people notable in other areas who are publicly Buddhist or who have espoused Buddhism.
This page was last edited on 13 November 2022, at 13:15 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
The Buddhist Society of India, known as the Bharatiya Bauddha Mahasabha, is a national Buddhist organization in the Republic of India. It was founded by B. R. Ambedkar on 4 May 1955 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Ambedkar was the drafting chairman of the Indian Constitution, polymath, human rights activist and Buddhism revivalist in India. He ...
B. R. Ambedkar, Marathi scholar and the revivalist of Buddhism in India. B. R. Ambedkar (1891–1956), jurist, barrister, and first Law and Justice Minister of India; R. D. Bhandare (born 1916), governor of Bihar and Andhra Pradesh; Bhushan Gavai (born 1960), justice in the Supreme Court of India [9] B. C. Kamble (born 1919), jurist and lawyer
India's West-centre area, Maharashtra shows Marathi Buddhist population. Almost all Marathi Buddhists are converts from Hinduism. Most Buddhist Marathi people belong to the former Mahar community who adopted Buddhism with Ambedkar in 1956. [5] [6] In the 1951 census of India, In Maharashtra, 2,487 (0.01%) respondents said they were Buddhist.
The Maha Bodhi Society is a South Asian Buddhist society presently based in Kolkata, India.Founded by the Sri Lankan Buddhist leader Anagarika Dharmapala and the British journalist and poet Sir Edwin Arnold, its first office was in Bodh Gaya.