The Buddha and His Dhamma, B. R. Ambedkar's 1957 primary text from Siddharth College Publications, Bombay, is the founder's own reinterpretation of the Buddha's life and teaching underlying the Navayana Buddhist movement he founded among Dalit converts. Its strength is that it is the founding figure's own text, the primary source for Navayana Buddhism's distinctive reading of Buddhist teaching. Its limit is that it is a founder's own reinterpretation rather than independent scholarly Buddhology, so a claim about how it departs from earlier Buddhist tradition should be checked against comparative scholarship.
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Reliability tier 1: the founding figure's own primary text, the primary source for the movement's own distinctive reading of tradition. NotesB. R. Ambedkar's own reinterpretation of the Buddha's life and teaching underlying the Navayana Buddhist movement, Siddharth College Publications, 1957; a founder's own text, not independent scholarly analysis.
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AuthorB. R. Ambedkar
PublisherSiddharth College Publications, Bombay
Publication Year1957
Source Typeprimary-text
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