Marathi Buddhists
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Marathi Buddhists are Buddhists of Marathi ethnic and linguistic identity. The religious community resides in the Indian state of Maharashtra. They speak Marathi as their mother-tongue. The Marathi Bu
Deekshabhoomi monument, located in Nagpur, Maharashtra, where B. R. Ambedkar converted to Buddhism in 1956, is the largest stupa in Asia.
Ambedkar delivering speech during conversion, Nagpur, 14 October 1956
B. R. Ambedkar, Marathi scholar and the revivalist of Buddhism in India
Marathi Buddhists are celebrating 62nd Dhammachakra Pravartan Din at Aurangabad Caves area in Aurangabad, Maharashtra on 18 October 2018.
Navayana
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Navayāna, otherwise known as Navayāna Buddhism, Neo-Buddhism, and Ambedkarite Buddhism, refers to a school of engaged Buddhism founded and developed by the Indian jurist, social reformer, and scholar
Marathi Buddhists
…constitute 5.81% of the population in Maharashtra, which is 77% of the total Buddhist population in India. Almost all Marathi Buddhists belong to the Navayana tradition, a 20th-century Buddhist revival movement in India that received its most substantial impetus from B. R. Ambedkar who called for the conversion…
A Navayāna Buddhist shrine with Ambedkar's portrait and The Buddha and His Dhamma book. The photograph is on the event of the 50th Dhammachakra Pravartan Day.
Navayāna Buddhist flag