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Dr Ambedkar and the Jaibhim Community in Hungary 9 Nov 2007 | 11:27 am
For some two years now there have been growing links between the FWBO and the Romany gypsies in Hungary. This began when they discovered Dr. Ambedkar and became inspired by him and his followers in In...
The Legacy of Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar- seen from the west by Ashvajit 16 Mar 2007 | 07:52 am
On the 2nd of October 2006 I was in Nagpur at Deekshabhumi (the mass conversion ground) where around 10,000,000 people from all over India were gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Dr Ambedk...
FWBO Pilgrimage and Project in India 9 Feb 2007 | 10:36 am
Melanie Venables and Samantha Langdon (pictured) from Wales have just returned from a month long trip in which they inaugurated the site of a new library project in South India, and visited the Buddhi...
BBC Programme on Dr Ambedkar 1 Feb 2007 | 10:23 am
The BBC have recently broadcast a program, Escaping Caste, on the continuing suffering caused by India’s caste system and the efforts of low-caste Indians to escape it – including, among other things,...
Dharmaduta’s in India 16 Jan 2007 | 09:37 am
As part of the first year of the Dharmaduta Training Course, we students – that is Anne, Yvonne, Manidhamma, Matt, Thea, Will, and myself – spent the months of October and November in India. Our stay ...
Conversions at Sarnath 2 Jan 2007 | 10:21 am
Manidhamma, an Indian Order Member living in UK and studying on the Dharma-Dhuta course in Birmingham, tells us that fourteen people from different castes were converted to Buddhism at Sarnath on 31st...
An Overview of India’s Buddhist Movement 14 Oct 2006 | 10:04 am
According to the 2001 census there are 7.95 million Buddhists in India out of a population of 1 billion, making it the country’s fifth-largest religion. The true figure is far higher – between 20-30 m...
Dharma Tour in Chattisgarh 14 Oct 2006 | 09:45 am
I’m writing this in a jeep, literally bumping down mud roads in rural Chhattisgarh. I have joined a Dharma teaching tour by Indian and western Buddhists in a rural area, far from the main cities, wher...
Impressions of Dikshabhumi 8 Oct 2006 | 09:47 am
I have already described the scene at Diksabhumi on Monday 2nd October, when a million or more people thronged to the site of Dr Ambedkar’s own conversion. I want to add here to what I wrote in my blo...
Buddhist meet to mark Dhamma Revolution 26 Sep 2006 | 08:35 am
“Bringing together so many Buddhists from radically different traditions is an earth shattering feat in itself. In the past the Network of Buddhist Organisations has brought different Buddhists togeth...
